Skydiver brings up a situation that was part of the North Carolina House Bill 2 controversy that raged in US Politics not so long ago.
We in North Carolina who supported HB 2 were accused of all sorts of evil acts, thoughts, and actions.
What the resistance was all about was the "Self Identifying" concept.
In our view....a Law that is written as was the Charlotte City Ordinance was...that provided for any individual, to "Self Identify" (with no requirement for clinical or other professional evidence) at a moments notice was dangerous to the safety and well being and privacy of others.
By that....we saw the Ordinance presenting a situation where a sexual deviant (not a legitimate Transgendered Person) could use the Ordinance as a means to enter Restrooms, Shower Facilities, Locker/Dressing Rooms etc....by merely uttering the words of "I am a Transgendered Man who thinks of myself as being Female." and that bothered us.
Argue how you want about Transgender Rights....but one must also remember there are other members of Society who also have Rights to privacy and security from sexual predators. (Again....not Transgenders as a Class of Folk within our Society).
The conflict is how to afford both groups protection under a single Law.
The radicals on both sides of the issue have caused it to become a very divisive one.
If your daughter or wife were using a public restroom and four or five rowdy guys barged into the place, using the Charlotte Ordinance language, stated they self identified as being TG....under that Ordinance there was nothing you could do (legally).....and therein lay the problem with the City Ordinance that kicked off the Fuss that resulted in the State Law (which in North Carolina trumps City Ordinances).
It cost a Governor an Election and certainly caused a lot of discord that was un-neccessary.
That the leader of the Charlotte Movement was a convicted Sex Offender did not help the LGBT groups
PR campaign attacking HB 2.
LGBT Chamber president steps down after criticism of his sex-offender status | Charlotte Observer