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            Josh Rivera, from USA Today wrote ,“Trump Fears Come True for LGBTQ,” a political column that involves Trump revoking the bathroom order that Obama had placed to protect transgender students and their identity. Rivera’s intended audience is all of the American people. The argument that he makes is how unsuitable it was for our government to withdraw the only law that protected minorities in expressing themselves.  Rivera speaks about how quickly the law was revoked after Senator Jeff Sessions was elected as the new General Attorney, who greatly opposes the rights of the LBTQ community. Rivera makes claims asserting that thousands of transgender children including the daughter of Amber and Adam from Texas whose child identifies himself as a boy, have had past difficulties deciding in which way to truly identify themselves not only when it comes to bathrooms, but along with greater aspects that affect their life. With the order it allowed the child to be more confident in school, and performed better than without it. This order was the first step in allowing not only transgender minorities, but all citizens that identify themselves in the LBTQ community to express themselves even more and hope for a more peaceful and accepting future, where the least of someone’s worries should be their gender. Rivera points out all the anti LBTQ policies around the U.S and how they are discriminating normal human beings and preventing them from any medical access, employment, even housing. He states, “If our government is already giving protection to specific groups under the law, why not include nearly 700,000 who identify as transgender?,” this proves how repugnant our government is. I agree that withdrawing the only piece of hope that allowed children to believe in having a decent future is completely unacceptable. The whole point in having a government is to protect the rights of citizens and find ways to meet their needs. Instead of having a government that puts its own citizens down based on what gender identity they prefer, we should have one that supports the people having difficulties on fully expressing who they truly are and offering them a pathway to overcome it.