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The utilitarian approach would be to throw out all this nonsense.
Maintaining a cult of binary and immutable sex is expensive because it requires work to force people to fit in the available boxes and prevent them from moving between them. The utilitarian answer is to stop wasting time and money enforcing sex segregation.
Sex is both variable and mutable. Both in our species and beyond it. Humans are not special.
I think you're weird for caring so much about sex segregated spaces. If women (cis or trans) don't feel safe in co-ed changing rooms with older men then there are much bigger problems with society that need to be addressed.
Mandating that trans men like the boxer below are required to use the womens' room is obviously not going to make anybody feel safer.
Thankfully society agrees with me and not the online bubble world.
I don't care what someone does with their body, the pronouns they pick it what they believe they are. The women/man in the photo you attached can identify as what they like. Someone just identifying as a male or female with no changes to their physical characteristics is also allowed in the opposite change room though? It's always the extreme with you lot.
Show me a society that wants to require guys to use women's spaces like you do, lol.
But do you care when someone that looks like a man uses the women's room?
That's not the question. The question is who gets to decide which bathroom people use. I think the government doesn't need be involved in that decision, you seem to be of the "papers, please" persuasion.
You're calling me extreme, when you're here saying that people who have made changes to their physical characteristics should be required to use a restroom that doesn't match them.