This is not a question of bathrooms. If someone dressed as the wrong sex, entered a bathroom and went to a stall in most cases no one would notice. But the push to make these policies public is an attempt to force everyone to accept the idea that there is no real sex, only a “gender” that one chooses for oneself. And Heaven help those who will not go along with the new orthodoxy. See Curt Schilling.
It's "an attempt," but it won't work, at least where I'm concerned.
It's just The Emperor's New Clothes," 2016 version.
A phenomenon that exists because (a) the internet and other low-barrier-to-entry mass media, and (b) a lot of useless people with meaningless lives who have too much time on their hands.
These laws also include locker rooms where women are in various stages of undress. My wife takes exercises almost everyday and uses the locker room. She uses the stall to clothe, but she says most women dress in front of their locker. Some, like she, are very private, and a male with a penis package to flaunt would cause all kinds of psychological disorders.
Yup. The switch is from judicious exceptions to cross usage, to official defense of unjustified cross usage. Huge change to a very old and well established standard... for what purpose?
I moved back to Iowa in the very early '80's after my naval enlistment was up. We were going through the "Equal Rights Amendment" at the time.
I found a copy of it and read it. Then read it again.
The entire thing was a circular argument that circled around the word 'gender'. The whole thing. So I looked it up.
Sex is the physical male/female. Gender is much stickier. It's masculine/feminine or how we FEEL about our sexuality.
BEWARE THE WORD GENDER!