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This video covers it all beautifully! Great job Aimee Toms! Well spoken!North Carolinas anti-transgender bathroom bill created an environment of fear and paranoia in public restrooms? One woman named Aimee Toms, who was recently harassed in a Walmart restroom after someone mistook her for a transgender man, believes that it has. Danbury News Times reports that Toms was accosted by another woman while she was washing her hands in a Walmart bathroom in Danbury, Connecticut. Toms was wearing a baseball hat and she had very short hair because she recently donated her hair to a charity that makes wigs for children with cancer.
She said that she was approached by a complete stranger in the bathroom and was told that Youre disgusting! and You dont belong here! The 22-year-old Toms posted a video on Facebook talking about how the experience opened her eyes to the abuse that transgender people face every day.
After experiencing the discrimination they face firsthand, I cannot fathom the discrimination transgender people must face in a lifetime, she said. Can you imagine going out every day and having people tell you you should not be who you are or that people will not accept you as who you are?
Toms also linked her experience back to the current debate over whether transgender people should be allowed to use the public bathrooms of the gender that they identify with.
No one was telling these people to be scared of transgender people before, she said. No one was telling them that they should be throwing people out of bathrooms. As if it wasnt scary enough for transgender people to use the bathroom before.
BlueCollar
(3,859 posts)This young lady nails it...
MH1
(17,600 posts)I never really cared about who was in the bathroom with me. Well, unless they are overloaded with perfume or are acting crazy. Then I just quietly remove myself from the premises as quickly as possible. But those issues have absolutely zero to do with gender, transgender, or anything else.
I just don't know why this ever even became an issue. What the hell is wrong with someone who has to get all bothered about how someone else looks in a public bathroom?
And all this b.s. is coming, of course, from the party that claims they want "small government". Yeah, small enough to fit in every woman's uterus and everyone's bathroom stall. Sheesh.
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I heard on the radio someone say that history repeats itself. This is how things were with black/white segregation. Now gender identity segregation.
This really comes out of the religious right. "in the name of god!" Well, those folks are just plain wrong.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)I know plenty of straight cis-women who have short hair, it's a common fashion thing, nowadays.