This really is a great thread; many different thoughts about it. We used to be pretty much off the radar for most people and probably still are. In the past, people would look at me, or through me, not even contemplating who I was or my gender. Due to MY perception, now I feel more at odds with the people around me; paranoid about people now paying attention where they didn't in the past. I don't think that's a rational feeling, but I can't help the way I feel now. We have been spotlighted and it has affected the way I feel when I go out. That being said, nobody has seemed to pay more attention than usual.

I have to use the bathroom a lot; can't help it. So, I've used multi-stall bathrooms many times and only once did a woman really eye me critically, not in a hostile manner, but she was my height with broad shoulders, hmmm. However, now that I feel we're being scrutinized, it makes me more nervous to use the Ladies Room. That's a shame. I don't think there will be any issues as most people just mind their own business and won't want to ask us for our "transgender card" to see if we're allowed or not, but just being the topic of discussion makes me nervous.

My sister and wife are totally against TG's using the wrong restroom. We're perverts. Young girls will be molested or worse! Couldn't that happen now? What's to keep a pervert from doing that now? Well, when it's legal, you'll see it all the time! I don't think this issue is going away in the near future and I think the legal arguments are going to the top in some states. If we do have to carry a card, I don't think anyone would ever ask for it, so those of us that don't carry a card don't have to worry about it.

Now, even in a very liberal state they are attempting to get the issue on a ballot so the voters themselves can decide the issue. Given the attitude of most people I've talked to about it, we're in for trouble. If they make it strictly illegal for us to use the Ladies Room, I guess I'm in for a rough time as I will still use the Ladies Room. There's no way Christina is going to use the Men's Room fully dressed. Talk about a safety issue, there's one.

I kind of wish they had left the sleeping dog lye on the issue.