One of the major controversies within the sex and social gender debate is whether an individual who identifies as a gender separate from their biological sex should be allowed entry into opposite sex bathrooms and locker rooms. This debate contains the same issue as sports in that bathrooms and locker rooms are separated based on biological sex. There is an unwritten rule that the separation is based on biology and that someone shouldn’t enter the bathroom of the opposite sex. With gender not being based on biological sex, this creates an incompatibility with the unwritten rule and an opportunity for an individual to use this loophole to state their belief that they are the opposite sex and attempt entry.
The issue comes down to comfortability. In almost every culture around the world, people have what they consider private areas of their body. People avoid showing these areas in public, and only undress around sexual partners, family, or those of the same sex in locker rooms. People also tend to avoid looking at private areas of others when it is unwanted by either party. Children in particular are shielded the most from showing themselves or seeing the private areas of other individuals.
If social genders are allowed to mix with sex-based bathrooms and locker rooms, unwanted private area exposure occurs. People may end up exposing themselves to an individual with whom they didn’t consent, or seeing the private areas of a sex that they didn’t want to see. These situations make almost everyone uncomfortable. An individual’s comfort should be the priority in those situations, which means that bathrooms and locker rooms must remain separated based on biological sex.
A transgender individual may feel uncomfortable being in a bathroom or locker room that is different from their identifying gender. But with transgender individuals making up a very small minority of around 1% of the U.S. population, the comfortability of the 99% majority should be the priority. Any male who identifies as a female and any female who identifies as a male, by nature, feeling, and claiming that their identifying social gender are the same as that of the opposite sex, should understand the discomfort of others seeing the body form of the opposite sex in such situations. If necessary, a third, sex-neutral locker room or bathroom could be created. But those of the opposite sex should never mix in these vulnerable situations without the consent of every involved individual.
