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December 20th, 2020

12/20/2020

Rachel McKinnon is known as a world champion in competitive cycling. Although she is not awarded with an applause for her accomplishment, instead she receives hateful messages, assumptions of cheating, and death threats. All due to her being a transgender women. Many social media spectators are saying that McKinnon should be participating in male races. McKinnon quickly replies, by informing her audience that she, in fact, is legally a women. Making it forbidden to compete as a male. The abundant amount of comments McKinnon receives, involve that yes, once upon a time she did have testosterone within her body. This would give her an unfair advantage in the races. She replies by saying "I transitioned in 2012. My testosterone levels are so low that they’re undetectable, and have been that way since 2012." Giving her no greater advantage than any other competitor. There is no issue with athletes that are legally transgender. Do you think people who are transgender deserve to have equal opportunities?

Gene Editing -Johnathon Simmons

12/7/2020

In a world full of advancing technologies, almost all would say that we don't have any other choice but to let it keep advancing. Out of all technologies, one stands out as being something right out of a Syfy movie; gene editing. Gene editing allows researchers to change someone's or something's genetic makeup in order to produce more desirable traits. Being a relatively new technology, there hasn't been many established rules on how it should or should not be used. One research group in China successfully changed the genetic makeup of a pair of twins while they were fetuses. The scientists behind that project now claim that one of those children is now immune to the AIDS virus. Theries of curing disease, preventing birth defects, and even making the "perfect child" have been discussed. With this new technology that could soon become available to everyday citizens, maybe some more than others, the question must be asked, is it ethical to use this technology on unborn children with no voice of their own? If so, to what extent is it still okay?