“It is odd to even question this, when you consider that bathrooms were not invented to serve social justice but instead to deal with a biological function (excretion). Why do liberals hate science? LOL!”
Setting aside the question of Liberals, your comment and those other comments preceding it makes it doubtful any of you understand or know the science, much less respect it. For example, if you omit anyone claiming special status on the basis of a mental condition, you still have something on the order of 1 out of 100 people having some form of physical intersex condition.
“Total number of people whose bodies differ from standard male or female one in 100 births.”
“Klinefelter (XXY) one in 1,000 births”
http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency
Based upon just the physical requirements of science, how do you propose to equitably enforce such laws without causing just as much harm or worse as you do when subjecting persons who are not intersexed to similar invasions of their privacy? In the past, the objective was accomplished by providing private facilities.
Actually I have read up on such issues before, be it genetic or hormonal/environmental. It is still a marginal number of people.
The figure 1 in 100 is a gross exaggeration, since they are lumping in a large number of conditions that are malformations of the urinary tract, and also some glandular abnormalities that may or may not affect the person’s perceptions of their gender. Since its a support site for persons with “intersex” conditions, you might expect such overgeneralizations and hype.