If you’re still intent on legislating values, though, how about weighing in on some of these?

If I assert myself the way a man does, I’ll be seen as shrill. Pursuing a PhD, as I’m doing, hurts my dating prospects among men intimidated by my education — even as higher education is seen to make men prime marriage material.

I was raised in a culture that communicated to me continuously that my role as a woman is to be thin, beautiful and passive so that a man can rescue me. And when dating, I’m forced to choose between seeming prudish or promiscuous — both of which carry a social penalty.

I want to live a world where young girls are taught to be strong and capable, just like little boys. Where a woman’s self-worth is not equal to her clothing size or her sexual availability.

And then there’s sexual assault, which brings us back to those bathroom bills. I can provide some womanly advice there as well.

I’ve been sexually assaulted four times. On all four occasions, I was with a man I knew. None of these assaults occurred in a bathroom and none of the assailants was transgender. They were simply people who wouldn’t take no for an answer.