Transgender people who have had the sex listed on their birth certificate changed to match their gender identity are allowed (in fact required) to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity. That’s an important point for people to know when forming their opinions of this new law because it addresses some of the more extreme implications of the law, such as the hypothetical case of a person being born anatomically female, but after hormone replacement therapy and surgery now looks like a big hairy bearded man, being forced to use the women’s bathroom for the rest of his life. According to the new law that hypothetical person would be required to use the women’s bathroom as long as their birth certificate still said female, but if/when they changed their birth certificate to say male they would be required to use the men’s bathroom from then on.

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Daniel Pfalmer