This smacks to me of the days of segregation of blacks and whites in USA. Toilets for 'Blacks Only' and those for 'Whites Only'. And in South Africa during apartheid, blacks and whites couldn't mix. But they had a bit of difficulty with people of mixed race. Were they 'Non-Whites'? Or 'Almost Whites'?? Or 'A Slightly Off-White'?? One needed a shade card, or DNA profile, in effect, to prove exactly what one was. And actually, they were all Human Beings. Couldn't the same conclusion be reached about transgender people too? Just human beings like every one of us.

After all, we all choose how to present ourselves in public. I'm elderly, but I could dye my hair and have Botox, and go about looking 20 years younger. No-one would dream of asking me for my Birth Certificate to prove my actual age in, say, a teenage dress-shop. As long as I'm not carrying a Kalashnikov, I'm not toxic to society.

If a person feels happier and more in tune with their inner self by changing their sexual appearance and body form, nobody needs to challenge them. Same thing with transvestites. If they want to wear certain clothing why ever not? If a gay person wants to walk down the street hand-in-hand with their partner, it's lovely to see.
This daft terror of going into a loo and (shock! horror!) finding a transgender person walking in too is silly. They are NOT dangerous. They are NOT sexual predators.

I get so cross at some folk's discriminatory attitude. Relax. No-one will die. The most dangerous and worrying people in our society at present are the racist, homophobic and fundamentalist bigots. It's they who threaten our peace and our happiness.

I can honestly and truthfully say I wouldn't feel at all ill at ease if a man who had become a transgender woman entered a public toilet while I was washing my hands, and proceeded to comb their hair or go into a cubicle. It really really doesn't matter.