To: The Texas State House, The Texas State Senate, Governor Greg Abbott, The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Donald Trump
Stop transgender women and children from being further victimized
Stop the state of Texas from putting Trangender Women and Children at further risk. Statistically transgender people are far more likely to be the victims of violent and sexual crimes and far less likely to be the perpetrators, than the average American. Unlike the proponents of this bill, the statistics and FACTS support our case. The danger is real, and not fabricated like the proponents of this bill. The only justification there has ever been against glbtqi people is a religious justification, this is a clear First Amendment violation.
Why is this important?
I am a transgender woman who has faced workplace discrimination on many occasions over issues regarding the bathroom. I have been targeted for violence because I am transgender and I have been harassed and even raped throughout the course of my life. 100% of the rhetoric, bigotry, and ostrication toward transgender people , comes from "personal" belief rather than evidence, and only justifiable by"religious reasoning" this is why the hateful rhetoric toward the transgender bathroom issue was started in Houston, by five VERY RELIGIOUS pastors... long before north carolina. People have a right to believe whatever they want to believe. It's their civil and human right, as long as they obey the secular law of the land. However they do not have the right to take away the civil and human rights of others because of their belief. The responsibility of the government is to protect its citizens from real threats that there is evidence for not imagined ones that there is absolutely zero evidence for. And separation of church and state is tantamount which is why it's the very first amendment.