Many transgender people don't have their original "equipment" and look like the gender they identify with. People are worried about men in the women's bathroom, but this law is going to force some guy with a beard to use the women's bathroom because he was born with two X chromosomes, which is exactly what the people who passed this law are worried about. And send a pretty teen girl into the men's room at a sketchy highway rest stop because she has a Y chromosome.

Transgendered people can definitely set off the "otherness" alarm in us, and it is easy enough to transfer that unsettled feeling into fear and anger. But there is no problem needing to be solved by forcing transgender people to use the restroom of their chromosomal sex. There is a general fear of men being given a free pass into women's bathrooms, but that sounds like a symptom of a broader societal problem that needs solving.