The de facto, if not de jure, rule has long been that if you were not otherwise bothering people, nobody cared what toilet you chose. Mothers would bring their little boys into the women’s room to go, so they could supervise them, BEHIND CLOSED STALL DOORS. Not “Johnny, take a look at Mrs. Smith’s je ne sais quoi.”
When this matter comes up for public discussion, immediately we think of the flaming drag queen or exhibitionist, the diametric opposite of discretion. And not without reason — matters that were kept under discretion never did gather this much public attention. The circumstances seem to scream drag queen or exhibitionist, and people are responding on this basis.
And yet, I wonder what is really going to happen. Will a place like Target become inundated with drag queens in its rest rooms? Dunno. I’d think it out of character for them.
I’m torn. I don’t want to see this become a big battle, but maybe the lefties won’t permit it to be anything but one. In which case I want to see the reaction be wise. I just can’t see policing people’s pants. Signs in bathrooms warning about exhibitionism and molestation (alongside of the commonly seen ones warning about shoplifting) might appear.
I don’t think allowing men to use the women’s restroom requires them wearing a dress or looking like a woman in any manner, they just have to claim that they identify as a woman.