Illustration: Christine Smith
Like clockwork, legislative bills are filed across the country in an attempt to limit transgender restroom use. It has gotten so bad that a Texas special session, initially involving unprecedented flooding along the Guadalupe River, instead turned into a redistricting battle and an attempt to get a restroom ban for the Lone Star State. As to be expected with these efforts, anti-transgender restroom bans target non-transgender women. Let me provide just a few recent examples. Gerika Mudra, an 18-year-old lesbian in Minnesota, was singled out by a server at a Buffalo Wild Wings location. It may be worth noting that Mudra is a woman of color and does not dress in a stereotypically feminine fashion. When Mudra left her friends to use the restroom, the serve