This is awesome: Transgender people protesting right-wing bathroom laws.

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34. Not every transperson can "pass."

This trans man looks a lot like a man. He has likely been blessed with a combination of genetics, income, and effective treatment to make it easy for the outer world to accept his inner sense of who he is--something he seems to want. Many transpeople are not so indistinguishable from cispeople, whether through choice or through lack of resources.

For that matter, there are cispeople whose appearances don't necessarily conform 100% to gender expectations. What happens when someone challenges their right to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender? Who is conducting the OBGYN/(whatever the equivalent for men) to verify that everyone entering a bathroom has the appropriate arrangement of X & Y chromosomes?

Outward appearance does not necessarily correspond to gender identity, nor should it. Just let people pee.