Where has the time gone?

We’re in the year 2015 people! The 21st century.

Now, there may not be hover boards, spacecraft-like cars or holographic phones like Back to the Future: Part 2 had promised us, but we do have the brilliant words of our founding fathers.

The founders of this country and writers of the Constitution have given each person, living in the United States, rights, and the opportunity to claim their natural rights and freed us from the tyranny and misrepresentation of the United Kingdom.

So, if our forefathers can free our nation from tyranny, rid the country of slavery and put an end to segregation of races. Why is that we can’t rid the nation of social discrimination?

Individuals’ stories are never one in the same.

They are just that, individuals.

All with their own stories, their own problems and their own happy endings.

The struggling story of a transgender girl in Hillsboro, Missouri has spiked heated debates and protest.

Lila Perry, the transgender girl out of Hillsboro High School, has been politely changing in the girl’s locker room since the beginning of the new school year.

During the prior year, she used a gender-neutral bathroom.

Students who felt uncomfortable with her presence in the locker room brought their concerns to school officials.

This is more than just a story of bathroom privileges.

It’s a story of unity and acceptance.

Perry’s request is not wrong, or morally corrupt and her need for respect has validity.

She is not egotistically asking for respect, but for the overwhelming sense of needing to belonging.

She is different. That is apparent. Life for Perry may never be completely normal, ever again.

Unlike most kids who want to stand out and be individuals, Perry just wants to fade into the background, so to speak.

“I just want to change and mind my own business,” Perry stated to a CNN affiliate.

It is not an overwhelming request.

She, literally, wants what every other girl is allowed to do – use the bathroom, comfortably.

Unfortunately, this story isn’t black and white.

It has the potential to go way right or far left.

That is just how life is.

Someone will always end up with the short end of the stick.

Perry, is only asking for the respect and privacy the other girls and boys.

So, how does one decide who deserves it more?

Choose Perry, you’re disrespecting the “non-trans” girls’ right to privacy, but choose against her, you’re being discriminatory.

It’s a fine line that not even the most skilled tight rope-walker can walk.

There are plenty of people in the world that feel uncomfortable in their own skin.

No man, or women, (transgendered or not) is alone in that.

The process to change what people don’t like about themselves is different from one another.

For the everyday person, it’s as easy as a simple diet plan, workout routine or even something as little as just going and getting a haircut.

People in the transgender community don’t have it easy.

Yes, they can do hormone replacements, plastic surgery and change what they wear, but that all comes out to cost [them] a pretty penny.

They search for any comfort they can get in the world, and Perry is no different.

To Perry, it’s being pushed aside and segregated from all the other girls; there’s nothing comfortable about it.

“I am a girl. I am not going to be pushed aside to a different bathroom,” Perry stated in a comment made to CNN affiliate, KPLR.

The students who oppose her form the use of female locker rooms and bathrooms feel that just because she says she is a girl doesn’t make it real.

“I find it offensive because Lila has not [gone] through any procedure to become female,” student Sophie Beel said in a quote made to Fox News. “Putting on a dress and putting on a wig is not transgender to me.”

While some choose to disagree with her opinion, Perry is still anatomically a boy, which is the cold hard truth of the matter.

This story shouldn’t bring attention to just one teen trying to use a gender specific bathroom.

This happens everyday, all over the country, to boys and girls just like her.

It should be about bringing a voice to those who have yet to find the courage to speak out for themselves.

Perry, along with thousands of other transgender individuals, doesn’t want to feel isolated from society. They want to feel included.

People don’t have to like or agree with Perry’s decision and they have the right to their opinion and to want their privacy as well.

We are quick to forget; transgender people are people too and we as a society may never figure out who’s allowed to use what bathroom.

For all anyone knows, we can all be sharing bathrooms with one another in the future.

Let’s not steer away from the matter at hand: No life is greater than the other.

We walk, talk and breathe just the same.

Our beliefs and personalities may be different, but that’s the beauty of the world, different cultures, people and beliefs coming together and learning from each other.

There may be no right or wrong, in the story of Lila Perry.