Transgender people should be able to use the bathrooms of the gender they identify as

Why transgender people should not automatically be allowed to use the bathroom of the sex, they identify with. This breaks down to the question why bathrooms are separated at all. For a modern day person is this probably not as obvious and therefore it makes sense to wish for more acceptance of transgender people in the bathroom of their choice.Reason 1 | Use of bathrooms for more than just hygienic relieveIn public, bathrooms are the only room where people can create a minimum space of privacy. They use it to change and wash themselves, partly exposing parts of their body that they don't want to show in public for different reasons such as personal shame or religion. I am not going to argue that personal shame is a reason for the exclusion of transgender people as they are most likely experiencing this shame themselves, are they forced to use the bathroom of the sex which whom they not identify. But religion is to a certain extend something we have to take in account. To provide a public space where religious people can full fill their basic human needs is as well crucial for them as it might be to transgender people. A bathroom is the only public space where religious men and woman have this clear separation and denying that space is as well cruel for them as it is for transgender people. I see it as a draw. There.Respecting the wishes of transgender people on something they physically do not need ties with respecting the wishes of other people on something they don't necessarily need. So who has more right to get his wish fulfilled? Mathematically this point could be already decided in favour of the majority demanding separated bathrooms over shared bathrooms, but I want to go further on this by showing that there are realistic benefits for the society to have these separated bathrooms.Reason 2 | protection of woman If you enter a male bathroom as a woman you might experience some growling and sarcasm. Men don't want to have "women" in their bathroom because they think they occupy stalls and extend the lines on the male bathroom. Woman are physically unable to use some installments of the male bathroom and due to limited space fewer stalls are available compared to the female bathroom this is a valid assumption. We might argue that allowing female-born transgender men to enter the male bathroom can be of technical inconvenience or of financial disadvantage (to add enough stalls), but it's in balance not the most important obstacle that prevents Pro's resolution. If you enter a female bathroom as a male you face strong rejection. Woman react scared and defensive. This subjective reason is of practical use for woman. Do I feel sexually harassed as a young female, going to the bathroom is giving me an effective way to get some rest and security. It's beneficial that I can go to the toilet and any male who enters will be watched suspiciously or thrown out by my fellow females.As rape is rather difficult (not impossible but more difficult to carry out) to perform in a woman-woman situation is the concept of separated bathrooms a public concept that deserves protection.There are people planning their sexual assault but also just drunks who get carried away. The first one will not be effectively prevented from carring out his/her plan just by separated bathrooms. The later one might on the other hand. Going to the bathroom and making a clear cut between the spaces can serve the visuable "no" girls might not want to speak out loud. As there are still more females with rape and sexual harassment background than males it is also important to understand that their claim on separated bathrooms is of higher value than those of transgender people who have not experienced trauma of such kind. Conclusion | Considering the benefit of the separated bathroom concept, transgender people should respect this separation till the time has come and shared bathrooms are socially accepted and respect the personal interest of woman on having their private bathroom. I thank my opponent for this debate. I want to underline that I understand the problems of transgender people but I think there are better ways to support their position than to declare their use of the bathroom of their choice as unproblematicI also thank my opponent for providing all necessary definitions for this debate. I would like to add that this debate focuses (as far as I can assume) on transgender people that have not undertaken surgery to convert their body according to the sex of their identiy. A man looking male and acting male is not of any particular poblem in a male bathroom because for the time being, nobody will ever notice. And any female, once being male, is not of any particular danger to other females. Physiology should not be a weapon or object to put pressure on someone, but as reality allows it, we have to rationally consider it.