Blog Assignment 8: The Concern Over the Transgender Bathroom Law

Let me start off by saying that I am not opposed to any couple that chooses to love someone from a different sex, ethnicity, or age group. People should be free to live their lives as best they can and deserve the right to have their privacy respected. But please keep your personal lives to yourselves like everybody else does. I don’t mean to be insensitive but when do your rights interfere with mine? My colleague wrote a blog post on why he supported the bathroom bill, but I found that the cons outweigh the pros in this situation. President Obama passed a federal law, known as Title IX, that allows individuals to use the facilities of the gender that they identify with. So, a male could walk into any women’s restroom and no one could object on the chance that this could be a transgender person. I don’t want to go to the store and see a man walk into the women’s bathroom when I’m there with my daughters, not only will this confuse them, but it worries me. My concern isn’t of a transgender person attacking my daughters but of others who would take advantage of this law. There have been several cases of men walking into women’s bathrooms and taking pictures of young girls, and no one says anything unless they notice this because men technically have a right to be in there.  I also do not think that every American should have to go out of their way to cater to a group of Americans that makes up about 0.3% of the nation. Which is why I think that President Trump did the right thing in rescinding Obama’s bathroom law.  

Blog Seven Assignment

Rising Tensions 

            If you have been paying attention to the news lately, you have seen the rapidly growing animosity between North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Pyongyang, and President Trump. For more than 6 decades now, North Korea has been in the hands of lunatic monarch dictators, intent on trying to show their power off to the world while severely oppressing their citizens. But after all this time, the conflict between the United States and North Korea has reached its peak as North Korea threatens to fire nuclear weapons against the U.S. if threatened.

            These threatens started when Pyongyang felt intimidated when President Trump ordered 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to be fired on a Syrian military airbase, where the chemical weapon that killed over 100 people in Syria, were believed to have been launched from. Since then, Pyongyang has said that he will not hesitate to fire nuclear missiles as a preemptive strike. But these sort of statements are coming from a young boy who has been taught everyone must bow to him, nonetheless, he does possess nuclear capability. Though one starts to interpret these words as somewhat empty threats since the maximum missile range that they possess could only get as far as Alaska. But given that their last nuclear missile test failed after it “blew up almost immediately”, I think that might be a fair assumption. However, President Trump is not backing down and has already send the submarine, USS Michigan, to join aircraft carrier, Carl Vinson, to dock in South Korea. The last President Trump has said on this issue came late yesterday when he told the press that “major, major conflict with North Korea is possible, but that he would prefer a diplomatic solution”.  Diplomacy is indeed needed but I do not think it wise either to back down when faced with nuclear threats.