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In reply to the discussion: Something just occured to me. I don't think you can tell if a person has sex reassignment surgery [View all]Ocelot II
(115,724 posts)may have started school as their birth gender but transitioned at some point, so that would be known through school records even if they changed schools. As for knowing anything about the gender of someone using a bathroom, that's a different matter, and no, you can't tell. Someone might think a woman "looks" masculine, for example, but that doesn't prove she's trans since women come in many shapes and sizes and facial structures, and certainly wouldn't justify even asking, let alone demanding proof of gender. Would they want to see the person's genitals? Only a medical expert could conclusively identify reassignment surgery. Would they want a DNA test? It's outrageous. I assume everyone I see in a public women's restroom is a woman; if a trans woman is there I consider her to be just as much a woman and that she's there for the same reason I am, which is to pee. The whole idea is not so much to identify trans people as to scare them and especially their parents into not transitioning at all; or if they do, to get out of the state so they aren't offending Republicans.