While President Trump’s executive order does not fully grant the rights to the transgender community, its verdict is reasonable as it does not take away their rights, but, does not force a specific verdict on the differently opinionated states.

As a full-fledged Republican, Trump firmly practiced his belief in the Tenth Amendment that values state’s rights and allows them to veto any executive orders that do not satisfy the public. His order does not take away Obama’s initial idea but merely alters it by leaving the decision up to each state.

President Trump knows the dangers of forcing political ideals on a largely divided crowd, especially when the majority disagrees with the former executive decision. Politico.com claims that a national poll recently taken off the CBS News/New York Times displays that “46 percent—said transgender people should be required to use the bathroom corresponding with their birth gender, while 41 percent said they should be able to use the restroom bearing the gender with which they identify.”

Furthermore, after calculating the results of a national survey Politico.com presented that “57 percent of all Americans surveyed said guidelines determining which bathrooms transgender students can use in schools should be left up to individual states and local governments, while 35 percent said the federal government should take the lead.”

Leaving the decision entirely to the states is an adequate response from the White House as it gives power to the people, thus not presenting the federal government as a potentially tyrannical faculty. Each state is given an opportunity to accept or decline the transgender community their request to use the bathroom in schools that they identify with. If the majority of the public within the state disagrees with the request, that state has the legal obligation of declining this privilege. In addition, there are underlying dangers of allowing students to choose the bathroom they wish to use.

According to lifesitenews.com, a thirty-seven-year-old man named Christopher Hambrook took advantage of Canada’s gender identity bathroom bill, and passed as a female, assaulting several women in a shelter in Toronto. Although the story did not take place in a public school, it serves as an example of the plausible harm that can be committed if schools allowed students to use bathrooms they identify with. On Debate.org debaters have written down that one of their main uncertainties about gender neutral bathrooms is fake predators posing as transgender people.

The transgender community is minor in perspective to America’s population. According to a study by The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, “about 150,000 youth — 0.7 percent — between the ages of 13 and 17 in the United States identify as transgender,” which is less than 1 percent of the youthful group. America is first and foremost a Republic and relies on votes issued by the vast majority. In this case, as stated above, the majority believe that transgender people are supposed to use the bathroom of their actual biological makeup aka their original gender.

This issue remains predominantly disputable, with liberal states such as California advocating for the transgender community and refusing to accept President Trump’s new bill. However, President Trump’s bill is seen to be causing much less commotion in terms of its legality.

Leaving the decision up to the states solves the bathroom bill issue with a fair compromise. The states willing to make these social changes are granted the right to do so, while those who practice conservative stands have an equal right to decline it.