Assignment 6: Sexual harassment laws

Assignment 6: Sexual harassment laws

From the e-Activity, analyze the two news events published within the past 12 months related to sexual harassment laws for or against lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals.

In an article in the Huffington Post on July 14, 2015 address LGBT Students and sexual harassment. The article was written by Senior Editor/Reporter Tyler Kingkade. Mr. Kingkade wrote “Colleges and universities are still trying to navigate how to better respond to sexual assault on campus, but some LGBT students feel their unique needs are not being fully considered by their schools even though LGBT students are actually more at risk for sexual violence than heterosexual students, and the U.S. departments of Justice and Education have affirmed that Title IX protects gay and trans students from discrimination.” The laws protects people, it does not specify gender

Propose at least two ways your agency plans to address these events, highlighting two challenges to identifying and prosecuting offenders within your agency

Two ways my agency can address these events would be training and policies. The challenges they my face would be individuals not being tolerant to change and individuals feeling as though their rights to have an opinion are being violated as well

Debate It: Take a position for or against this statement: A public sector agency should provide medical benefits to employees who choose to have surgery to change their sex. Provide at least two reasons and examples to support your position

I agree with, but as the questions reads, I do feel that medical benefits should be provided. I do however feel that anyone choosing to have surgery to change their sex should have to pay that cost out of pocket. Currently, medically necessary is defined as “Health care services or supplies needed to diagnose or treat an illness, injury condition, disease or its symptoms and that meet accepted standards of medicine” (Healthcare.gov, 2015). I would like to see my tax dollars being spent on services that are beneficial to my community, not on individuals who choose to have their sex changed.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.