North Carolina's Restroom Issue

Most of you have heard of the issue in North Carolina, how people who are transsexual have to use the public restroom of the gender that they were born with. Well, I decided to throw in my two cents into the issue. To put it simply, I think people should use the public restroom they identify with.

North Carolina says it is trying to protect women and young girls from sexual predators while they use a public restroom. Yet there is no law that protects young boys from sexual predators while they use the restrooms. In fact, people who are transsexual are the ones that are victims of sexual violence. Also, people who are victims of sexual violence, most likely know their abusers. Transsexuals have been around since in the beginning of time and if this was an issue, don't you think it would have been brought up a lot earlier? In states that allow transsexuals to use the public bathrooms of the gender with which they identify, these states report no problems or increases in sexual violence in public restrooms.

When I'm in a public restroom, I just want to do my business and get on with my day. I don't check to see if anyone else has the right equipment to use the men's room. It doesn't even cross my mind. I see North Carolina's law as discrimination toward the LGBT community, not as a law to protect people.

I'm Colin and these are the ramblings of a guy in his twenties.