5 Ways To Avoid Trans People In The Bathroom

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Transgender People Are Everywhere!

Apparently, transgender people and their allies are everywhere, which makes it really hard to avoid them in the bathroom. There's no real way to know if a person is transgender just by looking at them. But for the most determined "potty police" out there who are up in arms about bathroom laws, we've collected a few helpful methods that can be applied to every person you encounter in the restoom, to make sure you can avoid using the bathroom with a person who was assigned another gender at birth.