My Opinion On "Gender Rights"

In the past few years, a problem has risen involving the rights and treatment of transgender people and on the topic of  "Gender Rights". The most notable example of what is being argued is the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender student that was denied entrance to a men's bathroom at his school. Since that event, Grimm and other advocates have been searching for the US Government to pass acts recognizing transgenders and those with other abstract "gender identities" as what they say they are. In this post, I will be discussing my opinions on the matter; seeing as the aforementioned case of which bathroom transgenders should use is the first and most evident case, this will be the one I reference.

If I were asked whether or not I support gender rights, I would claim to be in heavy disagreement with it. Transgenders technically have the same rights as any other person, just without the recognition and agreement with what the individual identifies as. Rather, I see the calling for respect of these "rights" as just wanting special treatment and for others to have the same opinion as them. Rather than wanting rights, these people just want everyone else to agree with what they think they are. Using the bathroom incident as reference again, other students at Grimm's school stated that they were uncomfortable with having someone who was biologically a different sex in the same bathroom as them. In this case, you can get a sense of proportion  to how others might feel about this. A very small minority that doesn't even make up half of a percent of the U.S. population wants their feelings put above the feelings of the other 99.7% of the U.S. citizens. And, besides that, a lot of the institutions and societal norms that these people are advocating for run off the basis of actual biological sex, not gender- therefore the points that these people try to make are unrealistic, and their claims have no value. If an individual such as Grimm, a biological female, does not have the genitalia of a biological male, there is no reason for the individual to be in there.

In final thought, I think that what these individuals demand is irrational. While it would normally be reasonable to want to be acknowledged for who they are, this is too much. I personally think the government should not take action in giving these people "rights", since they are not rights at all. I feel that, unless the individual gets an operation to have the parts of the other sex, they should continue to conform to the standards, rules, and areas set apart for the sex they were born as. If these rights were passed, I think they would be abused or set as an example for others who are self-entitled.

For this assignment, I have reviewed an editorial posted on National Review named The Democrats’ Clinton Problem (Heather Wilhelm, March 9th 2017). In this article, the author outlined the Democratic party's "obsession" with the Clinton family and why she thinks they should add variety into their candidates. It is very apparent as to whom the author's message is aimed to as well as her opinions on both the Republican and the Democratic candidates in this most recent election; it's clear that this message was intended for Democratic supporters to convince them to not support Hillary or anyone else in the Clinton family when one is running.

In the editorial, the author claims that Hillary and her family have been the center of attention in the Democratic party as of late, and backs it up with articles from other news sources speaking only positively about Hillary and her daughter Chelsea, who has been said to be running for office in the future as well. The author states that Hillary and the Democrats got too full of themselves during the election, and ended up making Trump look like the better choice. The article also said that despite the awards and media support the family receives, very few actually support her. While some of the claims the writer makes are biased, the point still stands relatively reasonable- the Democratic needs to open up to other candidates if they want to stand a chance. People have caught on to Hillary and her kin and no longer care about them; it's for the best that Hillary gets dropped.