If nothing else bothers me in the world, intolerance really gets under my skin. Of every way to treat a human being, I would just as soon someone walk up and blatantly punch me in the face than be intolerant of something I identify as an essential part of what makes me the human being I am.

That is why I am nothing short of outraged at the law passed in Alabama last week stating transgender people could be jailed or fined for using the bathroom of the sex of which they identify themselves. I see more than a few things wrong here.

First of all, though I admittedly know very little of transgenderism, how exactly, does a person know when a female/male who dresses, acts and conducts themselves as the opposite sex walks into a bathroom, for the gender in which they appear to be? I inquire how, actually, will this be reinforced? Is an appointed “gender checker” going to stand outside every bathroom in the state of Alabama, to make sure each and every person who walks into the respective bathroom has the qualifying parts to do so? Of course not! That’d be insensitive and an invasion of privacy. Imagine that.

According to CNN, it is stated in the clauses of the law that “[The Council] further asserts that single-sex public facilities are places of increased vulnerability and present the potential for crimes against individuals utilizing those facilities which may include, but not limited to, voyeurism, exhibitionism, molestation, and assault and battery.” Are. You. Kidding. Me?

Guys, I don’t know how you spend your precious urinal interactions with complete strangers, but as a woman, let me give you some insight on how I spend my time in the powder room. I go in, I do my business, I wash my hands, and I leave. Simple. I can’t even remember the last time I even made eye contact with someone in the bathroom, and to be completely honest, most days I’m so rushed and preoccupied I don’t even think I’d notice if a completely conspicuous non-transgender man was in the bathroom next to me much less take the time to notice a man dressed as a woman. I certainly would never feel as if I was about to be molested if a transgender was in a stall next to me. This idea is unfortunately pointed toward women, I feel, especially as the molestation and assault and battery have male on female connotations.

This one point alone is preposterous to me, much less the entire law. This is pointing to the idea that all transgender people are sexual predators. It might come as a surprise to the people of Alabama, but there is nothing sexual or physical about a bathroom break. We’re not in there naked, wet and wild. Especially as it points toward females, whose restrooms consist of individual, closed-off stalls. How would one even know if they were sharing a facility with a trans person?

Which brings me right back to the question of how is this actually going to be enforced? There isn’t an answer here, and it’s simply impractical, to put it the nicest way I can think of.

The law enforcement of Alabama certainly has much more important things to worry about than monitoring how the people of the state are relieving themselves. I’d love to hear an officer of the law explain to a woman whose home was broken into that they were unable to catch the thief because they were late arriving on scene due to a response call to the local mall bathroom to remove a transgender male from the bathroom.

Thankfully, there are people standing up against the law. Target released a statement saying it would allow transgender employees and customers to use the restroom they feel comfortable with.

I sincerely hope as time goes on, the aftermath of this shows nothing but strength and support to the transgender community for such nonsense. Alabama state government has some explaining to do, and it certainly owes the entire population a huge apology. Not just to the transgender community, but to the state, and even country as a whole, for such intolerance and hate. As an American, I demand better than this, and I know I speak for more than just myself when I say that.