@Pixiecutlover - regardless of your personal opinions on other people's mental health, we're talking about transgender people here, NOT paedophiles, rapists, murderers, or cannibals. So why do you claim that "the public" needs to be protected from them? Frankly, and your attitude only makes it more clear, THEY need protecting from certain members of "the public" - the kind of people who go to peaceful demonstrations and start a riot, the kind of people who torch the home of a paediatrician in the mistaken belief that paediatrician is the same word as paedophile, the kind of people who think that everyone who is DIFFERENT must be mentally ill and extremely dangerous! The kind of people who want to destroy and/or kill everything they don't understand!
As for transgender bathrooms, I don't really see the need - if a man who looks like a woman goes into the men's toilets, obviously it'll cause problems, even if they're not sexual or violent problems! And if a woman who looks like a man goes in the ladies' room, obviously THAT will cause shrieks and complaints! So the logical thing - the thing that's been happening FOREVER anyway - is for anyone who looks like a man to go in the gents, and if they don't have a penis, they use a cubicle. And anyone who looks like a woman goes into the ladies' room - if they DO have a penis, nobody's likely to complain about them standing in front of the toilet to pee, because it's nobody else's business! Plus they could just as easily be emptying a catheter bag ...
Why insist on adding a fourth kind of restroom? (In addition to mens, ladies, and disabled?) Maybe it's time to consider them to be PEOPLE'S toilets, and who cares what gender you are or whether you dress for your genitals? The only real differences between mens and womens toilets are;
1. urinals. Obviously women would normally not want to even TRY!
2. number of cubicles. If a man needed a cubicle toilet, and couldn't use the men's because it was in use, or out of order, what right-minded woman would complain about him using one of the ladies cubicles??
3. Queues. Women know all about that! Imagine if we could go in the gents instead? Especially for any woman who has the knack of using a urinal without piddling on her feet, that would be so convenient, and cut down on queues at the ladies loos dramatically!!