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Recently my entire news feed has been filled with debates regarding trans people rights. I have seen some videos of police officers physically removing people from bathrooms because they believe that they do not belong in which ever gender specified bathroom. 

This might not have an obvious connection with racial profiling, but it is definitely connected to discrimination and labeling someone a criminal. The whole argument, as I understand it, seem to be that some people do not want trans people to use the bathroom that they want to because they fear that they will abuse, harm or molest people that are in the bathroom. Some people are going crazy  over the idea that an individual would want to use a bathroom that corresponds with the gender that they identify with. This has brought up past history to make point such as using Civil Rights rhetoric regarding desegregation to make their points. Some things that I have read mention that just like the Civil Rights Movement wasn't about drinking from a fountain, this is not about trans people and bathrooms, but the fact that people have rights and they should not be violated. 

There is a resistance on social media of people posting selfies in the bathroom to bring awareness of what it means if trans people are not allowed to use the bathroom that they wish. The following are a few of them:

 Furthermore, it is not just that they are being forced to use a different bathroom that does not correspond with the gender that they identify, but they are being put at risk to be assaulted. There are some places like Target that have changed their bathrooms to gender neutral. but there is much work to be done. In the meantime some are left to make a scary choice: