Today there is an ethical issue that affects everyone in our country in some form or another. The issue of whether or not transgender people should be able to use the bathroom to which they identify has sparked heated debates nationwide. There is no easy answer to this question and there are dozens of different opinions on the matter. One opinion I have recently came across comes from writer Jacob Pitman in his Huffington Post article titled NCAA Should Stay Out Of North Carolina Until ‘HB2.0’ Is Repealed. In the span of his article Pitman lays out his interpretation of what HB2 originally set out to accomplish, why the NCAA has chosen to retract all championship events in North Carolina, and why he thinks the new HB2.0 is no better than…show more content… Supporters of HB2, like myself believe that this law was not meant to be discriminatory in any way instead, it was meant to protect the rights that men, women, and children have to a safe and private place to use the bathroom. Since when has it been okay to infringe on the rights of the majority of the population in order to make the lives of a small group of individuals more convenient. For some reason people in the transgender community have obtained this idea that all their issues would all go away if the world would conform to the idea that they are the gender they identify as and construct laws and rights that make their life easier. Please do not misinterpret me as a selfish bigot because I truly do love all people and want happiness for everyone however, we cannot risk the rights, privacy, and security of the rest of the public in order to please a small group of people. The LBGTQ community constantly calls for equality, but they fail to realize you cannot obtain equality if one group of people benefits at the expense of…show more content… When a person who chooses to identify as different sex than what they were born, they do not gain the right to occupy the same private spaces of those who are true to their gender. That’s like saying if an 18 year old Caucasian chooses to “identify” as a 30 year old North Korean he should be allowed to drink alcohol and vote in Korean elections, its just not logical. The new “HB2.0” has actually given a lot of undue privileges to the transgender community and it is unfortunate that Pitman and his constituents are still unsatisfied and demanding more. Companies and organizations like the NCAA should adjust their view of this situation and end the frivolous boycott against the state of North
