This whole situation is horrible, but it proves the transphobes wrong, doesn't it?

Every time bills come up about passing laws requiring that gender identity is respected, the transphobes spend huge sums of money trying to convince people that trans-sensitive legislation will allow men to go into women's restrooms and rape the women. These people obviously aren't particularly logical, because there's never been anything stopping anyone from entering any restroom. The signs with the skirt-wearing gal and the pants-wearing guy don't actually prevent anyone from entering the restrooms, and people who are in the process of committing a felony assault aren't usually dissuaded by stopping to consider whether the particular jurisdiction will also charge them with a misdemeanor of ignoring a restroom gender sign (or whatever the applicable law would actually be).

Apparently someone who identifies as male allegedly went into a women's restroom and allegedly raped a woman in there. The story doesn't say, but it would seem that the woman symbol on the door didn't stop him from entering, nor did he assume any sort of female gender temporarily or long-term. He just walked right in! He didn't need the help of any newfangled laws or anything. Astonishing.