Re: Today's Bad News
Reply #244 –
1. Enter the toilet designated for the opposite sex in e.g. a shopping centre.
2. Observe the inevitable riot and arrival of security personnel.
Where do you live that this happens? Like I said, with a trans person, without an embarrassing inspection, you usually can't tell anyway. You're using the restroom and trans man comes in (that's a person going from female to male.) You do your business, wash your hands and leave none the wiser and he does the same. In the case of a transwomen that still has male anatomy, if she's sitting in the stall with the door locked, who knows unless they're the pervert looking under the stall? Remember, we're not simply talking about people dressed in non-sex appropriate clothing. These are people that consider themselves male or female, regardless of the set of genitalia they born both, and tend to be considered by others to be that gender.
I'll elaborate a little on what Frenzie said. It's fairly common in certain circumstances to find the opposite sex in the restroom with you. Women will often complain that their assigned restroom is full. So some will use the men's room. In that situation, you can use the urinal and she can use the stall or you both use the stall and move on with your respective lives. Frenzie's example is more common. Only someone with issues to begin with be traumatized. I wonder if the GOP took these factors into account when they codified their bizarre laws.
My guess would be that gender specific restrooms will eventually become a thing of the past. Privacy concerns are easily rectified by adding opaque flaps under existing stall doors and doors that go all the way to the floor in future construction. This way the Republicans can have better things to do besides pass moronic laws, such as picking their noses.