But even if you change ‘original gender’ to ‘original sex’ in your article, there’s still a problem. ‘Original sex’ means the sex that you were born with; but the state defines ‘biological sex’ as the sex listed on your birth certificate. And while that may seem like a minor difference, it’s actually a very important one because North Carolina (along with every other state except Idaho, Ohio, Kansas, and Tennessee) allows a transgender person to change the sex listed on their birth certificate. Different states have different processes and requirements for doing so, but in North Carolina once a transgender person completes sexual reassignment surgery they can be issued a new birth certificate showing their new name and sex. So in the case of this new law the state is not barring all transgender people from using the bathroom that conforms to their gender identity.