“Does this get walked back?”
Of course, mainly due to the fact that he did not say what people think he said.
The question was about transgenders. For the most part they are unidentifiable, always have been.
Here lately, the push seems to be to allow males in women’s restrooms/dressing rooms, using the transgender angle, but a totally separate issue.
No, it is not a "totally separate issue." It is actually the exact same issue. If a person can define their gender however they want, using a purely subjective standard, then it is virtually impossible to arrest and prosecute a man for entering a women's bathroom, shower facility, or changing room. All he has to do is claim that he "identifies as a woman", and the headache of prosecution and proving that he really doesn't identify that way makes it not worthwhile to arrest him at all.
I LOVE the smell of desperation in the morning....