Lots of women are what some would call "masculine." And "masculinity" in females is often in the eye of the beholder. People born since the mid-1990s seem to be much quicker than previous generations to label people "masculine" and "feminine" and to have extremely rigid, narrow views of what those labels mean. By the sexist standards embraced by so many Gen Z people today, a good number of the "1950s housewives" of my mother's generation would be considered "masculine" or at least somewhat or rather "unfeminine."

Also, women's level of "femininity" tends to change a great deal over the course of life. Even those who look/ed "feminine" in youth tend to become much more "neuter," "matronly" and/or "masculine" with age.

This is particularly the case during and after menopause, but it's often very noticeable long, long before that too. I was just noticing this the other day whilst watching some reruns of "Criminal Minds" and seeing the changes in actress A. J. Cook over the years. Same goes for the original "Law and Order" and the way both Elizabeth Olivet the shrink and Jamie the DA physically changed - which is one of the reasons L&O kept retiring female actresses and bringing in younger, fresher ones in full flush of more stereotyped "feminine" looks.

I imagine our older people have been completely baffled with bathroom politics and I can understand that seeing a masculine looking female in the washroom can be abnormal, but the line for me is always no dicks allowed.

Your use of the term "our older people" is off-putting to me, especially on a thread where the first comment - mine - was about ageism. The possessive "our" seems incredibly patronizing. And the word "older" begs the question: Older than whom?

Also, I think if you spoke to a lot of "older" people, you'd find that most people over age 50 or so would not consider a "masculine looking female in the (women's) washroom" to be "abnormal." At all. Used to be, everyone was well aware and cool with the fact that human beings of both sexes can and do look remarkably diverse. And in the world and era many of us "older" people grew up in, lots of men men wore makeup and frilly clothes and had long hair, whilst lots of women did not. Yet with rare exceptions, everyone still could tell at a glance what sex everyone was.

And psst: a lot of the female people you or others might judge as "masculine looking" when you see us in the washroom will be "older" too - though none of us will belong to you.