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This law is screwed up in so many ways...

But let me share a story. When I was in college (early 70's) I visited a friend at his dorm at MIT. The dorm had been all-male, but that year it had gone co-ed. The bathrooms (one to a floor) were initially alternately marked with paper signs as "MEN" (1st, 3rd, 5th,...floors) and "WOMEN" (2nd, 4th,... floors).

These things happened in a matter of two weeks:

For a few days, everybody put up with the inconvenience of having to use stairwells to go to another floor for a shower or pee.
Then the hassle started being a pain, and a few kids agreed to "stand watch" while each other would use the "wrong" bathroom.
Eventually the time came when no friends were available to stand watch, and a few kids just took their chances. Inevitably a few "surprises" occurred, but nobody was particularly freaked out.
The paper signs on the MENs bathrooms came down, and all the "MEN" bathrooms were declared "UNISEX" (or some such term, maybe "COED", I forget). The WOMENs bathrooms remained women-only.

I was taking a shower in the open shower area of the MENs bathroom one morning, when a lovely girl of 20 or so, whom I did not know, came strolling in, dropped her towel, and proceeded to take a shower at the position next to mine. We had a perfectly normal (if somewhat superficial) conversation for a few minutes, while of course enjoying the view, and when we were done we toweled ourselves dry, combed our hair, and said goodbye. No big deal, really. That was 40 years ago.

BUT THAT WAS TWO NORMAL PEOPLE, OF THE CORRECT SEXES, WHO WERE NOT CONFUSED ABOUT THEIR SEXUALITY.

The part about this misbegotten, wrong-headed law that gets to me is -- the people who are disrupting the order are by definition CONFUSED about their SEXUALITY. In my opinion they present a significant potential threat -- NOT ONLY to the normal people who use sex-separated facilities by choice, but ALSO to those of us who don't much care if a normal person of the other sex sees us, but who are bothered by some deve ogling us while we shower.

This law is wrong, top to bottom.

Based on your story —and I’m 66, so I lived through thesixties and seventies— you’re a female then?

Your story makes me wonder why the feminazis aren’t more upset about this. We all know that this law will result in a bunch of dudes donning dresses and wigs and heading to the ladies’ restrooms with a cell phone camera.