Why does jj keep talking about bathroom bills? This is not America; in the UK or Ireland toilets aren't referred to as bathrooms and there is no "bill" being imposed.
On another note, I think women have a "sense" of a person's actual sex that goes beyond appearance. We can tell. Maybe it's the scent a man produces, even if wearing a skirt and high heels, maybe it's just a vibe he produces. I'm pretty sure if were blindfolded and placed next to a person and asked if they were male or female, I'd know, even before the spoke. It's a sensory thing.
I was thinking the other day how confusing the gender stuff must be for children. Young children are busy learning the names for the things they see; it's the most exciting part of being a toddler. My 2 year old gd is at the moment fascinated by "girls". Wherever we go, she points and says "girl" whenever we see one, and she can tell -- even if they are in trousers and have short hair. Women, btw, are also "girls" for her and men are "boys". She knows the anatomical difference because she gets in the bathtub with her dad.
How do you explain to a child, if you belive in gender, that somebody might look like a girl but actually, deep in side, they are actually a boy, and vice versa? How very confusing! It can't be healthy.
My 11 year old granddaughter loves animals, especially horses; when she goes to pat a horse, the first thing she wants to know is its sex, and she bends over to look. We have a cat, and I tend to misgender him as "she" because I lived with my daughter for a while and her cat is female, and because I'm dozy sometimes.
Whenever I "misgender" the cat, this granddaughter corrects me with a stern word: he's a HE!!!! But.... what if the cat identifies as a female cat? What then?