How do you put thoughtful analysis into a lazy comparison that show absolutely no similarities to the subject at hand.
A better comparison would be crimes against theft. Sure some people get away with theft and some people get caught. A transgender person is still a human with a license that designates their gender. The community may have seen them 2 days ago as a male now dressed up as a female going into the woman's bathroom. Your comparison is dumb because unlike sexuality, a person's gender is actually fairly easily tracked from birth. Your comparison is lazy because it was a lazy attempt to lump homosexuals into this argument because it's easier to defend homosexual behavior then it is to defend a woman going into the mans restroom or vice versa. I don't even care about this argument but don't pull a shitty comparison out of your ass and then try to sell it as well thought out.
1: trans people have had a tendency to live on the fringe, and frequently don't carry or even possess ID. Remember the whole point of this was the assumption that there was a rule in place, and that rule was followed or enforced, when it probably wasn't, and if there was a rule that was enforced, like the ban on gays in the military, it was probably enforced arbitrarily and unevenly.
2: the people who would and could regularly use their preferred restroom wouldn't be asked for their ID.
3: it has never been an established convention in the past to screen restroom entrants based on
Their ID.
Yes it's not as nebulous as sexuality, but it's no less a breach of privacy to demand people prove their gender at the entrance of a restroom.
I compared the gays in the military specifically because I lived through the hysterics of the DADT repeal, there was quite a bit of hysterics because they thought somehow gays were just now going to be allowed in the military. That they would be spying on people in the shower and such. Even though these same people had been in the military all along.
It's an egocentric perspective that suggests that the first time you've heard of a thing, then it's the first time it has happened.