Transgender Bathroom Debate

Alright. I wanted to write this article because I was skimming through Facebook and I happened to pass through an article about a woman who was mistaken for being transgender and was thrown out for using the wrong room. Transgender rights have always been quite a taboo topic in today's society. Not many can wrap their heads around someone who has female parts, identifying as a male, and vice versa. It's always been a heated topic as people don't want the other "sex" in their bathroom due to the fact that simply, they just don't look like "the part". The woman who was thrown out of the bathroom for being mistaken as a transgender said that society needs to be more open about their gender norms. Women can have short hair, men can have long hair and IT'S ALRIGHT. Now, back to the problems transgenders face on a daily. AJ Jackson, a transgender male, has gathered complaints for simply using the male bathroom in his school. The school, Green Mountain Union High School, recently allowed students to use the sex-specific bathroom of their choice. Yet, some student's disapprove of this and, in retaliation to the new rule, have started to wear "Straight Pride" t-shirts to show it. Their argument is, "gay people are being celebrated at the expense of straight people." Now, there's nothing wrong with telling people your opinion... but that doesn't mean they want to or need to hear it either. Just because someone is different on the outside doesn't mean that they're any different from anyone else. The one thing that gets on my nerves about the opposing arguments people have proposed is that they say that AJ should be more considerate for his classmates as they've always seen him as a girl. So, are you trying to tell him to just not be who he is? 

Leave comments down below on what you would say about the argument.

Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/us/national-debate-over-transgender-bathrooms-turns-personal-at-rural-vermont-high-school.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Canada's Strive To End Discrimination Against Transgenders

Supporters of transgender rights listening to a news conference on Tuesday in Ottawa

Chris Wattie/Reuters

Mitchell Mui

       In Ottawa, Canada, its been made clear that as a whole, discrimination against transgenders will end country wide. Upon reading this, I felt a sense of relief as some initiative has been made to make everyone equal. I find this extremely wonderful. In the future Canada will ban this sort of discrimination to take its serious level to par with other hate crimes. The new legislation imposed by Canada is expected to have a smoother time. The current law also states that it is a crime to hate propaganda of any sort of group. Its quite fascinating that law makers added transgender people to the list. This allows more protection rights for trans people. Finally they can live at ease without the feeling of being defenseless. In pursuit of helping their rights, mental health care and support is intended to be improved in the future for them.

Mexico President Tries to Legalize Gay Marriage

Mohammad Khalid

The Mexican President Enrique Pena Neito proposes to legalize gay marriage in Mexico, last Tuesday he announced his proposal to Congress. 
In South America, countries like Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil allow same sex gender. 
According to New York Times article, Mexican President Moves to Legalize Gay Marriage Nationwide, Elizabeth Malkin and Azam Ahmed said "Revising the Constitution, he said, would incorporate marriage equality as a human right with full clarity." This action by the Mexican President will improve human rights in the country. 
In addition to the article, the author included "President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico said his two bills would change the Constitution to incorporate the right for same-sex couples to wed and reform the federal civil code to assure marriage equality."

Should we feel safer carrying guns?

The topic of guns has always been a long and heated debatable topic. With the recent spike in increase of gun-violence related tragedies, people are beginning to lean more towards the idea of guns. 'Cause come on, if someone came to shoot you, it'd be nice to have your own to shoot them back right? No. No, it's not that easy. Things can go horribly wrong with carrying guns, ESPECIALLY if you don't know how to use it PROPERLY. The average age for a Texan citizen to obtain a gun license is 18. Over 1 million people own guns in Texas AND it only costs you $140 for the application AND only six hours of instruction is required. Not only are these numbers incredibly large and scary but one needs more than just six hours worth of instruction. People need to understand that guns v. guns aren't the best idea to give people. I feel that guns should be understood and must require someone much more than just basic knowledge. In order to stop gun-violence in the country, I feel it's important to take into consideration one's mental health. 

Article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/us/licensed-to-carry-handguns-in-texas.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

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Syrian Refugees In America

             As of today, America has been progressively bringing in refugees from Syria, but at a very slow rate. The president made a promise to bring in 10,000 refugees who will than be provided aid. However, as the rate may seem right now, he has only made 1/5th of the promise although almost half the year is over. Some may say that this is weakening the administration's push to advance the cause of refugees while other countries are putting barriers to their entry. Its also a given among the U.S officials. They had a meeting in March that discussed the needs of Syrian Refugees. Close to about half a million needed permanent new homes away from the region, but it seems to be a long reach as the U.S is becoming haphazard.

Running Man Challenge is Taking the Internet by Storm

In the past few weeks another dance took the internet by storm  just like the whip and the nae nae along with the dab and many more . It's called the Running Man challenge. There's no way to describe how to do it but it's basically one foot in from of the other moving slowly and moving in place almost like the running man where you stay in place. Many people are doing it along with famous people especially basketball players. Kyrie Irving updated his video last Thursday. The song that they dance to is called " My Boo" by Ghost Town DJ's


 To learn  more about this new dance click the link below: http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016/04/26/video-running-man-challenge-college-basketball-vines-compilation-song

Facebook Relations Problems Regarding Leaders

Mitchell Mui

               A leader in Germany was found guilty of incitement after assaulting refugees on a Facebook post two years ago.  Mr. Lutz Bachmann was a founder of the Pegida when he  was forced to pay 9,600 euros in other words 11,000 dollars equivalent US dollars for his remarks.

               The refugees who received this news were outraged and want him sentenced to up to minimum of seven months in prison. They claim that Bachmann called the immigrants "cattle, brutes, and trash," that he deserved worse.

               The leader was forced last year to step down as leader of the Pegida due to his attire that match that of Adolf Hitler. Although he is hated by the immigrants, Bachmann's supporters continue to throw racial slurs and sometimes violent protests,

Link to source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/world/europe/lutz-bachmann-pegida-fined-germany.html?ref=world