Hello, I am a resident of West Virginia, but have several friends and loved ones who are trans and live in VA or go there frequently for work and other activities. This action would put them in direct danger, not only of legal danger but of harassment. In this policy only the safety of cis gendered women and girls is being considered; but what about trans women in men's bathrooms? What about cis gendered women being predated on by other women? I mention this specifically as a child sexual abuse survivor, who was molested in a women's bathroom by a cis woman when I was 11. Anyone- trans women, cis women, cis men, nonbinary, trans men, intersex- can commit sexual abuse. We need to create effective systems for protecting potential victims and helping survivors, instead of preemptively deciding what kinds of people we think will commit, based solely on identity and not previous behavior. There is also the question of how this will be enforced. How will cis women who don't look exactly the way someone thinks a woman should look be effected? Are we checking IDs? Looking under skirts, unzipping pants? Even if it is somehow not that invasive, it is dehumanizing to enforce personal ideas on how gender should be expressed by others. 

Thank you.