Instead of talking about how to improve healthcare or the national debt, our politicians feel it’s most imperative to discuss who should be allowed to use what bathroom.

Transgender rights have come to the forefront of the LGBTQ+ community, and most Americans are opposing laws that ban transgender men and women from using bathrooms that don’t reflect their sex assigned at birth, according to an article published on NBC.

The non-partisan group that conducted this research found that 53 percent of Americans “opposed laws requiring transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth,” 39 percent “favored such laws,” and one in ten of the 2,031 surveyed “had no opinion.”

People having no opinion these days seems to be a rare, but these numbers were even more divided among party lines. Majority of Democrats and Independents opposed these laws, and majority of Republicans favored them. Surprise, surprise.

While the topic appears to be about the right to use whichever bathroom they choose, the real issue is whether or not trans people are allowed to exist in public spaces.

It is a shame that Americans pledge “liberty and justice for all,” but then don’t really mean all. Transgender lives are human lives. They just want to pee in peace. It’s 2017. Let’s move on.

Donald Trump is no stranger to the media, which is evident from the fact that it’s nearly impossible to read the news today without mention of him. However, recent events this week have shown increasing animosity between journalists and the Trump administration.

This past Friday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer barred several news outlets from attending his daily press briefing after a series of tweets from President Trump about media outlets and their harboring of “fake news.”

Not only were the Times and CNN barred from the briefing, but other outlets such as BuzzFeed, Politico, the BBC and The Huffington Post were not allowed to attend according to the New York Times article by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and media correspondent Michael M. Grynbaum.

Just one day after, CNN’s Dylan Byers reported that President Trump took to twitter Saturday to announce he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, an annual tradition that raises money for journalism scholarships.

This announcement comes after “increasingly hostile relations between the media and the White House,” according to Byers.

Trump continues to take to social media today with another tweet about the harboring of fake news in regards to Trump’s alleged relations with Russia.

Some have expressed concern over Trump’s actions against the media, including NY Times executive editor Dean Banquet, who spoke out against the Times’ exclusion from Friday’s press briefing.

“We strongly protest the exclusion of The New York Times and the other news organizations. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial nation interest,” said Banquet.

Lately, it seems you can’t read or watch the news without talking about Trump. After watching Nightly News with Lester Holt on Wednesday, three specific news values that reoccurred in two stories about the President were apparent: prominence, human interest and impact.

The breaking news story was Judge Neil M. Gorsuch calling Trump’s attacks on the judiciary, who are ruling on his controversial travel ban, “demoralizing.” Impact plays a large role in this story because of the millions of people who are both directly and indirectly affected by the ruling. Any news generated by Trump — good or bad — is reported on not only because of he is one of the most prominent figures in American government, but because the interest people have in what he does.

Additionally, Nordstrom dropping Ivanka’s clothing line and Trump’s response on twitter was reported on. While this doesn’t seem like news, the fact that it has a connection to Trump makes it newsworthy. This story does not have a direct impact on a large number of people by any means, but it does affect the opinion people have about the President.

People have a fascination with him, whether it be of a comical or genuine interest, but the stories being reported about him let the people to make that decision for themselves.