Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 03, 2018, 06:40:13 PM
Theoretically, they can do raids (similar to roadblocks) and ask anyone with questionable gender to prove to their satisfaction your gender and issue a ticket (fine) for failure to do it on the spot and ask to send BC by mail to get the ticket dismissed...
I also believe that as soon as they start enforcing their law, there will be a costly ACLU challenge to the state... As of now, I hope NC is in enough trouble not to call for more attention to themselves.
And any local agency could use similar tactics even without any particular law in the books (cops can always find a good reason to give you a ticket - public disturbance for instance - if you keep insisting you're female and demand to be allowed into the right bathroom). Luckily, local police agency mostly have better jobs to do than policing bathrooms.
I think it would go like this:
Authority figure: "Birth certificate, please."
Me: "I don't think I have one, can you show me your birth certificate as an example?
<crickets>
Authority figure: would you allow our female officer to conduct a quick physical examination?
You: no way.
Authority figure: sorry, sir. You are not allowed to use the female bathroom.
You: I insist!
Authority figure: I am sorry, we will have to ask you to follow us to our detention facility.
You: I need to pee!
Authority figure (thinking they don't want to soil their bus): please follow our officer to this gender appropriate bathroom.
You: ...
Well, at this moment, you will have to follow the order or it's resisting police which is a violation of your own. Since you are posing an obvious danger to an officer, they might actually handcuff you and conduct a search for weapons. And after you do your business, the authority figure would issue a citation to you for intent to use a wrong bathroom and 'I wish you a safe trip, Sir'.
What I am saying, where's a will to enforce law and intimidate people, authority figures can always find a way to do so.