It's A Phase, Mom

*I know that this article wasn't on your list for this week, but I have never written on this subject and it's economical*

Dr. Paul McHugh

Allowing people that believe they are transgender to use their preferred bathroom has been an issue for quite some time. Some states, like South Carolina, allow people to use whichever bathroom they choose. Washington, however, requires people to use the bathroom designated for their biological gender. There are even states that are required to have bathrooms for both cisgender and transgender individuals. I do not believe that transgender bathrooms should exist. If someone believes they are a different gender, it is all in their head. According to a man named Dr. Paul McHugh, the suicide rate for people who changed their sex went up by at least 20% and that most of those people, around 70 to 80%, "lost those feelings". I feel like that just reinforces the fact that someone believing they are supposed to be a different gender is just a phase.  

There was a case that involved an individual that went by the name of GG. This person, a biologically female individual, believed that she was really a male trapped inside a female body. She argued that since her school did not allow her to use the male restroom, it was sex discrimination. There was even a law professor named Michael Dorf that had the same views on the issue as GG. Dorf wrote in a blog, "Boys can use the boys’ restroom; G.G. can’t because the school regards him as a girl. That’s sex discrimination, plain and simple….". I believe that it was not sex discrimination, but rather sex reinforcement. The school was not discriminating against GG's beliefs. They just wanted her to use the bathroom that belonged to her biological sex. The school regards GG as a girl because GG is a girl. The same thought comes from the rest of the LGBTQ community. They think that if we do not agree with their choices or their lifestyle, then we are "intolerant" or "discriminating". This is most definitely not the case. 

Were you born this way? Were you a girl born in a boy's body or a boy born in a girl's body? No, you were not. The issue of trying to create more transgender bathrooms throughout the world is absolutely ridiculous. If a girl thinks that she is not comfortable with certain feminine things, that does not mean she is a boy born in a girl's body. It just means she is a tomboy and she might eventually grow out of it. There could be a great fashion designer who is male that makes clothes for females. Does that mean that, since he manufactures feminine products, he is supposed to be a woman? To put it simply, no it does not. The belief that if you are a girl and your into boyish things, or vice versa, means that you are meant to be the opposite gender is just sickening. It might be a little weird, but being into things that generally the other sex is into does not mean you are supposed to be the opposite sex. Whichever sex people are born as, that is the sex they are supposed to be. 

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