I'm a perfectly 'ordinaary' woman and I'd like to note:
In the 90s, I was assaulted by another woman in the bathroom of the Pensacola Civic Center. Arena security was rather spectacular in not giving a damn about it. No conservative groups seem terribly concerned about that kind of thing.
I've also used my share of (typically single stall) men's rooms over the years, often at the urging of a store manager or owner who saw me waiting for the ladies' room while the men's was clearly open. The laws now in place are so sweeping as to turn a kindness by the manager into a criminal act.
They also criminalize things like not letting an elderly man enter a women's restroom with his disabled wife in order to assist her with toileting or would force a 4-6 year old boy to use the men's side of the toilets at a public rest stop instead of being under safe watch of his mother in the women's room during that time. (When I'm feeling cranky, I call the bathroom laws the 'Freedom to molest children at rest stops act')
They're demolishing the county courthouse in Crestview right now- toxic mold that would just cost too much to remediate compared to building a new one. Before they tore it down, the facilities manager gave a tour to a writer from the Daily News, and it was talked about how, in 1950s Southern public building practices, you put in three restrooms- white women, white men, and 'colored men and women' who were expected to share a small and inferior toilet space in a building sub-basement next to the filing cabinet labeled 'beware of the panther'.
What's this long-standing Southern obsession with which type or person uses which type of restroom anyways?