The Bathroom Bill

The Bathroom Bill has been a hot topic in Texas for quite some time now, Recently in an editorial by Alexa Ura, entitled "Committee sends Texas "bathroom bill" to full Senate" she wrote about the recent bills to be passed regarding this topic. In the article, she writes, “the legislation would require transgender individuals to use the multi-stall bathrooms and locker rooms in schools and other government buildings that match their “biological sex,” and it would nix local anti-discrimination laws meant to allow transgender residents to use bathrooms that match their gender identity.” Now I don't believe that this in any way sounds like the problem of sexual discrimination towards the Transgender community will be solved. To me, these "bills" sound awful close to the Jim Crow Laws, and those lasted over 70 years. Those laws did the exact same thing these bills will, separate a group of people from the rest and increase discrimination. She writes that there are far more important issues that our government should be focusing on such as Schools, Veterans need help, our Homeless population increasing, there are so many better issues that need attention, then something like who get to use what bathroom. This will do far more harm, and will only further the misunderstanding of the Transgender community.

- W. E. B. Du Bois reflecting on being black in America in the early twentieth century

"I have always been made sad when I have heard members of any race claiming rights and privileges, or certain badges of distinction, on the ground simply that they were members of this or that race, regardless of their own individual worth or attainments. I have been made to feel sad for such persons because I am conscious of the fact that mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless he has individual worth, and mere connection with what is regarded as an inferior race will not finally hold an individual back if he possesses intrinsic, individual merit."