Response to " 11 States... Directive"

Although I agree with most aspects of my colleague Tida Phumtim’s most recent blog post, I found a few parts that I disagree with. I believe strongly in pursuing equality of all sorts, including transgender but when it comes to this specific directive Obama issued I found some problems that this may cause. While allowing transgender people to use their preferred bathroom is great, there really is no way to tell if someone is abusing this rule for harmful reasons. Also, in the end of Phumtim’s blog post she mentions “having much larger issues to deal with” I disagree with this statement solely because I think it is extremely important to look at every problem in society as being equally important and needing to be dealt with. This ensures that one’s opinion of how detrimental an issue is to them will not have to be factored into the equation to figure out what to issue deal with.

Overall, although I believe that both Tida Phumtim and I disagree about a miniscule part of her blog post I realize that we agree completely that the general public's safety needs to be considered when dealing with a subject like this one and that is the most important part of this post.