Question about the NC Bathroom Law

[3catwoman3]

57. When I was in high school, we were required...

...to shower after gym class. Big group shower, that must have had at least 20 shower heads. Totally starkers. There were 3 or 4 private stalls that were reserved for those who had their periods, and the gym teachers kept track of that by marking a little "M" next to our names in their attendance log so they could make sure no one was taking unfair advantage of the private facilities by reporting a never ending menstrual cycle.

You had to line up at the half door into the gym teachers' office while the marked all the little letter Ms beside the names. I remember how much I hated having to stand in that line while they took names, as I did not wish anyone to be privy to my bodily functions. Very humiliating.

It didn't occur to me until many years later, that they might also have been monitoring for girls who stopped reporting their cycles, to be on the lookout for those who might be pregnant. This was in the late 1960s I'm pretty damn sure schools could no longer get away with this type of invasion of privacy.

I will admit that it would have felt most awkward had there been someone who identified as female but still had male genitalia in the locker room.