I don't know how many there may be, but the anti-discrimination side says they don't have to go to that trouble, they can come and go without that effort.
As a function of small, that's a small group but so is the amount of actual violence inflicted on gay and transgender people in public restrooms. Such incidents are also extremely uncommon.
In that sense this whole thing is a tempest in teapot.
The entire LGBT "community" in the US is estimated at about 4% of the population. Transgenders are estimated at about 0.3% of the population. Honestly that infinitesimal to be going through this much drama. They still have the same rights, but not the right to bend the rights of 99.7% of the US population. There's a solution in the middle here that should work without this much hoo-ha. Even if those numbers are low, it's still stunning that with 19 trillion in debt and all the other massive problems facing the nation this is the hot topic of action and debate.
The truth is that the LGBT community is becoming a tyranny of the minority, focusing far too much of the nation's attention on far too small a set of issues, while pulling us away from the far more serious issues that impact the welfare of many more millions of Americans. I have a bunch of gay friends, but spending this much of the nation's attention on these relatively non-life threatening issues is becoming absurd.
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