What are human rights? Well that really depends who you ask
to be honest, but I will offer some food for thought. As far as America is
concerned those human rights are laid out in the Constitution and Bill of
rights. And those are solid rights for legal citizens of the United States of
America. That said I call upon you all who read this to consider something
here. Let’s consider for a moment we are questioning someone’s right to be a
teacher for a living(under the concept of right to pursuit of happiness) Now
let’s say that they are a “normal” straight white male, well there would be
absolutely no opposition to that persons position as a teacher would there? And
that is their right to pursue that is it not? Well of course, now let’s mix
things up a bit, let’s say a Tran’s woman applies to be a teacher at the same
school, I would suggest that a majority of Americans would be up in arms over
this. Things like “they most certainly do not have the right to be in schools”
and “how can we let this happen?” but wait, when did a person’s status become a
way to tell them they don’t have the right? If the so called “normal” white
male has this right shouldn’t other people as well who may be different in
whatever way? I do agree there are circumstances where one can call into
question if said individual should be allowed to teach, take for example if
said white male had a criminal record of having committed sex crimes on
children, should they really be allowed to be a teacher in a school with children?
I would suggest they shouldn’t that would have the same effect as an active
pill addict working as a pharmacist. These things would set these people up for
failure.
Let’s be reasonable though, a trans person is NOT directly linked to
pedophilia nor rape, there are no common cases with enough of a percentage of
the trans population being a pedophile to even say that a majority is, are
trans people immune to being pedophiles? Murderers? Rapists? I would say not as
they have the same probability as a straight person does of being so but that
does not instantly say that they are by association. So this said what is the
real factor behind people’s instant dislike of a Trans person being a teacher? Well…
prejudice to be honest, people choose to not like a particular type of person
not based on their character or record of being a good human being, but on the
basis that they are different in a given way. Back before the civil rights
movement black Americans were not allowed to be in certain places, work in
certain fields or places of employment, but they were allowed to stay with
their own kind. Morally wrong to force this? YES!!! So what actually makes this
different from what is happening to the LGBTQ people today? Well on a basic
level nothing really, we have a group of people struggling to be able to pursue
their dreams and a group of people opposing them at every front they can. Sure we
can argue that well race is a physical characteristic that people see right
away and being gay isn’t but let’s be real; a Trans person can’t encounter
someone without that person being able to tell unless they absolutely pass 100%
as their preferred gender. Which I might add is rather difficult and expensive
to achieve, not to mention that someone will inevitably find Waldo in the crowd(congratulations
you won the biggest douche in the world award) so to be honest being trans is
as easily noticeable as being Black or Asian. The not in my back yard breeds a
new version of segregation where it’s ok to be gay/lesbian/trans as long as you
keep yourself away from my life and my family, well here in lies the problem
with this concept, you infringe on the LGBTQ persons rights by telling them
what they can and can’t do and where they can and can’t do it. You stipulate
what rights you think they have as opposed to the constitutional rights that
they do actually have whether you think they should or not is irrelevant. Now a
lot of the argument to this is biblically based, you believe that way that is
fine, but it’s at the point of forcing laws to be created based on your belief
to infringe upon someone’s rights that your rights end. Hate to burst your
bubble but to illegalize homosexuality and transsexuality based on religious
beliefs is against the constitution as per the 1st amendment of the
constitution.
Amendment I
"Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a
redress of grievances."
For this debate I offer that making certain things you don’t
like illegal based on religious beliefs opens the door for every religion to do
so, next thing you know within the concept of fairness and equality if homosexuality was
outlawed for the sake of Christians, than any religions can impose their rules on others. But we don’t think of this because Christians find their beliefs to
be more important than other peoples beliefs because well “it’s my belief that
you are wrong.” So where do we draw the line? And let’s say for instance you
are arguing with an atheist homosexual, of what consequence is it to them if
you think they are sinning? I would suggest none and after you have expressed
your opinions on said sin, if they continue to disagree isn’t it a waste of
breath to keep at them? After all they think you are nuts for even believing in
God in the first place so they aren’t going to believe a word you say, but let’s
offer the concept here that we are talking about implementing laws based on
Christian beliefs, is it constitutionally right to force someone who doesn’t believe
in your God to adhere to laws based from that in all facets of their lives? I would
say no, and our founding fathers laid out a set of laws they thought were the
best possible scenario for all people in America to enjoy their lives and not
have their lives forcibly infringed on by others.
