TRANSSEXUALS, RESTROOMS, AND LOCKER ROOMS

As I live in North Carolina, the topic of bathroom and locker room use by transsexuals is current and keeps coming up on TV because of a law called HB2.*  Mississippi too has passed a bathroom and locker room law.

Estimates of what percentage of Americans are transsexuals range widely from 0.1% (1 in a thousand) to 0.5% (1 in 200).  It seems possibly that you may not even encounter a transsexual in your lifetime.

In the North Carolina law, transsexuals are to use the bathroom and locker room of their birth gender.  Well I think that as to bathrooms you probably wouldn't know the person going into the stall was for the women's restroom was a male unless he/she was wearing a beard or maybe if you struck up a conversation with them.  Ditto for a women transsexual going into the men's restroom.

Locker rooms are something else, of course, except for those transsexuals who have had a complete sex change operation,** whether it is from male to female or female to male as they both would have the same, um, equipment or lack thereof.  That is the man actually is a woman who has had a complete hysterectomy and a women actually looks like a man complete with a penis.***  Apparently they can even have sex.  I suspect that you wouldn't even know, at least from a casual look.  These people certainly belong in their new sex restroom and locker rooms.  Uterine transplantation is even in experimental phases.  Apparently there are some health insurance plans that cover such operations.

Another thing is that in most places, women now wear trousers and many sport a mannish haircut.  A lot of such women could maybe "pass" in the male restroom without a sex change operation.  I think that male transsexuals who still have their, um, equipment steer clear of women's locker rooms.  There is no problem with their wearing trousers and sport a mannish haircut and still identify themselves as a woman.

With this post, my interest in the topic is finished.

* http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article68401147.html
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_reassignment_surgery
*** https://www.quora.com/Will-complete-sex-changes-including-all-internal-organs-and-full-fertility-ever-be-possible
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A0LEVvfYKxxX5D4A8D4nnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByaWg0YW05BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM4BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--?qid=20100110033224AAZWDdI&p=complete%20sex%20change