OP-ED: "Soon I'll occupy the men's room stall next to you. Thank the Ohio Legislature. "

[Johnny2X2X]

6. It's absurd

They basically want to be able to check people's genitals.

And there's basically no way to police this. There are transexuals and non transexuals who look differently than one might expect in both directions.

I know some older women who became more masculine looking as they aged. Imagine the humiliation when one of them is targeted for using the women's bathroom. Imagine some poor little old lady who has a little facial hair and what looks like an Adam's Apple being targeted for using a public restroom? Because that's coming with these types of laws.

And the whole thing with puberty blockers is that it increases the chances no one will be able to tell. Many years ago I had a young man working for me for over a year before they told me they were transexual, I had no idea, he looked just like any other young adult male, not that I cared either way. And there are transexual women you may know who you have zero idea are transexuals.

Basically, Republicans have this idea in their heads of what trans people look like and they are passing laws with that idea in mind. That idea encompasses a fraction of trans people. And sex itself isn't so black and white, there are many American whose sex can't be accurately assigned at birth. People with female parts, but testicles inside them. People with both sex organs. And everything in between.