There is a meme going around showing a lady, Sarina, and a muscular man. Apparently both had sex change operations in the past. The meme alleges that according to the new NC law the man would have to use the ladies room and the lady would have to use the men's room. A FB friend of mine shared it so I immediately called him out on it and quoted the NC Law showing that their birth certificates would now show their new genders. He and his friends didn't like that and immediately changed the subject and went on the attack. I went to his wall this morning to try and find the meme and it would appear that he deleted the posts.
Do tell.
The awkward part isn't the people who pass for the opposite sex. They will go into the bathroom, do their business and nobody will be the wiser.
There are three places that we run into trouble -
1) Transgender / crossdressers that don't pass. These people stand out no matter what bathroom they use because THEY STAND OUT.
2) No matter what your gender, you have no business exposing yourself in a place with a minor of the biologically opposite sex can see it. That's illegal today but there are people who do it.
3) Perverts who want to use crossdressing as way to gain access to bathrooms of the opposite sex for a thrill. In all the stories I've found of them, these are primarily men.
Ok, so let's address that.
1) no rules by anyone on public bathroom use. Bathrooms exist for the purpose of public sanitation and let's not complicate it beyond that.
2) If you are transgender then you bear a heightened responsibility not to expose your genitalia to a minor of the other sex. That's the law today and if you break it then you are guilty of corruption of a minor and you may wind up being forced to register as a sex offender the same way the flasher in the trench coat would. Sorry, but heap it on the pile of burdens you have to bear.
3) Bathrooms exist for the purposes of public sanitation. If you are caught using a public bathroom for sexual gratification then it is 1) A class ? misdemeanor for all parties if it is consensual or 2) a class ? felony if it involves an involuntary participant or a minor and you must register as a sex offender.
Bathroom functions are private and for sanitation and as long as you keep it in that realm then we can all get along.
Probably makes way too much sense.