I just got to be me and I got to pee.

I have read a lot about Bathroom Bills especially North Carolina’s HB2. I find it discriminating on several levels. First the reason we “need” this type of legislation is to protect our daughters but not our sons.  While I must admit that more child sexual predators are male but there are some female ones as well.

When confronted no one can state one case where a transgendered person has ever used that as a excuse so they can pass into the female restroom to sexually assault a young girl, not one. They then throw in the  but someone who is not actually transgendered can then use that as an excuse to go into a women’s room and accost a young girl. That makes as much sense as saying we should not allow tourist into New Orleans because someone from California might show up.  What they are really saying is we should legislate discrimination against transgendered people  not because  of a legitimate reason but because someone with less than honorable intentions may perhaps do something in the future. In the last 25 years we have had members of the clergy and politicians been accused and convicted of sexually molesting children, yet there is no legislation being planned to restrict their bathroom access.

The more absurd part of this is that the law reads  that a person can only use the restroom that corresponds to the “sex assigned at birth”  What does that mean exactly? Let’s face it for the past 7 years I can change my gender identity on my passport without surgery.  The Michigan Secretary of State has just made it easier to change the gender on your birth certificate and your driver license.  I don’t carry my original birth certificate with me and those people who were present at my birth have all passed and if my drivers license says I am female and there is a question about my gender how are they going to prove otherwise?  If  I am out to an event on a Saturday night and need to use the facilities will the bathroom police keep me from using the facilities until they can get verification from the state offices on Monday morning because I don’t think I can wait that long. In reality what they will have to do is a modified what we called in the military as a short arm inspection, they will have to check to see what genitalia I have between my legs. In other words do I have a penis. ( oh for the uninformed you can have that surgically removed and have it converted to female parts.)  So let me sum up I can change my genitals, birth certificate, drivers license, and passport to say that I am what I say I am regardless of my “sex assigned at birth” what does this law actually mean?

The bottom line is I just got to be me and I got to pee.