# Puzzled by transgender bathroom laws. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzled-by-transgender-bathroom-laws/752498 "2016-04-17T20:00:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Septima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzled-by-transgender-bathroom-laws/752498/241 "2016-05-08T00:06:43Z")
Yeah, well, “officially” can bite my shiny metal ass. In a public bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzled-by-transgender-bathroom-laws/752498/242 "2016-05-08T00:43:09Z")
> [@](#): > > the public bathroom laws are intended to protect against transvestites so which bathroom are transvestites supposed to use? Most of them are self-identified male/heterosexual that just happen to wear women’s clothing sometimes. I’m a self-identified female/heterosexual that frequently wears men’s clothing and I usually opt for the bathroom with the picture of the person wearing a skirt even though I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzled-by-transgender-bathroom-laws/752498/243 "2016-05-08T05:01:54Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > And, to be fair, officially, the public bathroom laws are intended to protect against transvestites claiming to be transgender, not transgender people. Not even, at least not in my books. A transvestite is someone who is dressed up as a woman because he likes that clothing or because it’s part of a show; the laws are supposed to protect us poor women from assholes dressing up as women so they can see… women popping zits! OMG so prurient! (Aren’t there youtube videos of zitpopping they can wank to?) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzled-by-transgender-bathroom-laws/752498/244 "2016-05-08T05:04:37Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Not even, at least not in my books. A transvestite is someone who is dressed up as a woman because he likes that clothing or because it’s part of a show; the laws are supposed to protect us poor women from assholes dressing up as women so they can see… women popping zits! OMG so prurient! (Aren’t there youtube videos of zitpopping they can wank to?) I don’t want to see _anyone_ popping zits in a public restroom! Do that shit at home! Yuck! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzled-by-transgender-bathroom-laws/752498/245 "2016-05-08T05:07:19Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > And, to be fair, officially, the public bathroom laws are intended to protect against transvestites claiming to be transgender, not transgender people. Not even, at least not in my books. A transvestite is someone who is dressed up as a woman because he likes that clothing or because it’s part of a show persona (not if it’s part of one skit); the laws are supposed to protect us poor women from assholes dressing up as women so they can see… women popping zits! OMG so prurient! (Aren’t there youtube videos of zitpopping they can wank to?) Links spoilered due to NSFW, specially the second one [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8FQCcyBHxw) is a transvestite. And if you didn’t know ID says Rafael, you’d think it was a chubby woman with a deep voice. [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5U8CxjJTsM) is not a bunch of transvestites, although it definitely is a bunch of clowns doing a skit in not-trying-to-pass drag. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puzzled-by-transgender-bathroom-laws/752498.md?page=12)