Also, if someone doesn't want trans women in the bathroom with them because they think that person might have a penis and they are afraid that person will then harm them because someone with a penis did before, where does that end? There are cisgender women who have beards. They don't even want them but they have them. If a woman with a beard and a flannel shirt comes into the bathroom, and that would scare her, too, do we create a policy where only women who look feminine enough are allowed in the bathroom?? My partners have been confused as male. They have breasts! You would have to be such a basic straight sheltered woman to look at my partners and think they’re men and why should that be the problem my partners need to fix?

We can’t police people’s clothing choices or bodies. We can’t create policies that invite scrutiny and policing and violence towards people who aren’t even trying to be gender non-normative, right? Like, even Ben Shapiro would agree that we can’t tell women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome who grow beards and like to wear gender neutral clothes that they have to do anything with their faces and wear dresses so that people won’t be confused and think they’re men in the bathroom? Even if we agreed that trans people should be policed, it necessarily would lead to all gender ambiguous people to be scrutinized and policed. They would be othered, bullied, and harmed just for looking different when maybe they don’t even want to!

We can’t always tell who is trans and who isn’t. Trans people have been using bathrooms forever. So, then what we’re really saying is that people have to “pass” as trans enough for them to be allowed into the rest rooms because otherwise we’ll know and we’ll be afraid. Then, what of everyone who is assumed to be trans, who isn’t?

What is the argument that people like JKR are making to this very real, very logical, very inevitable problem, if we start policing trans people out of bathrooms?