So, unless you've been living under a urinal cake, you've probably heard about some anti-LGBT legislations that have been proposed and/or passed in a number of states (North Carolina and Mississippi most infamously). These state legislators are all really concerned about the deadly scourge of transgender women using the women's room, and so in their infinite wisdom, they're going to force those nasty trans women to pee in the men's room.

I don't want to go into the merits of these - such as whether there's any actual threat from trans women (there isn't), or if women actually want to share the restroom with trans men (they really, really don't.)

Nope, that's been done very well elsewhere. But what seems to be missing is a good discussion about why trans women are using the ladies room in the first place. Why don't they just suck it up and go pee with the men, and stop causing such a fuss?

Well, as a Genuine Trans Woman (tm), I happen to have a few thoughts on the matter. So here are five reasons why it's actually very important for us to be able to use the women's restroom: