Mom Posts Topless Selfie To Reveal Victims Of HB2 That Supporters Didn't Expect

[IronLionZion]

http://aplus.com/a/christi-salcedo-breast-cancer-transgender-bathroom?

A 32-year-old breast cancer survivor bravely shared a photo of her chest on Facebook after having a double mastectomy and getting her lymph nodes removed. She posted her photo to show that "the great bathroom debate of 2016 has hurt more than just the transgender community."

Christi Salcedo is a Texas mom who was diagnosed with Stage 3 invasive ductal carcinoma. After she chose to forgo reconstruction surgery, she says she began noticing people staring at her in ways that made her feel uncomfortable while in shops and other public places. She speculated that they were wondering if her flat chest indicated that she was transgender, and if, by extension, she might possibly be legally obligated to use a different public restroom.

"I notice more eyes trying to figure me out," she wrote. "At the grocery store, restaurants... Walmart was the worst. I want to scream, 'YES! You are seeing it right! This is breast cancer... Please check yourself!' But instead I let my eyes meet theirs in an almost plea for a change in what has become our society."



North Carolina's House Bill 2, which limits people to using only the public bathrooms associated with the gender they are assigned at birth, has propelled a national debate about the rights of transgender people. While proponents of North Carolina's controversial bill say that they are trying to protect children from sexual harassment, LGBT advocates note that the law's negative impact on transgender people is significant.

Salcedo suggests that cancer survivors have been among the law's victims as well, and says she would like to close the book once and for all on the discussion.

"I am personally of the belief that no transgender person wants to cause trouble in a bathroom," she wrote. "People just want to use the restroom."

Things don't go so well for women who don't look womanly enough. Conservative women have called security on these types of women already.

[Omaha Steve]

1. Brave woman indeed sending a great message

K&R!

OS

[LiberalElite]

2. and, some women are just naturally

flat-chested. It's genetics.

[IronLionZion]

3. And some large males have breasts

There are all types of people in this world.

[KamaAina]

44. Hence the Seinfeld classic, the Mansiere

A brassiere for a man! Or was it the Bro?

[Duval]

20. Tell me about it!

Oh, well. I'm used to it by now, being in my 70's!

[malaise]

4. Powerful

RW lunatics need to be separated from the rest of us

[truebluegreen]

5. I think they should have separate bathrooms.

Or maybe a separate planet...like, maybe, Venus.*






*suitably hot imo

[malaise]

6. Perfect

but for now let's shove them into one state and build our wall

[Warpy]

7. Florida

It's almost there now, it can be sold to them very easily, and it's out of the way so travel won't be disrupted for the rest of us.

It's also hot, swampy, buggy, on a major storm track, and, best of all, it's sinking.

[malaise]

8. Not until my sis and her folks move

They're good Dems

[Warpy]

10. That's the best part

She'll be able to get top dollar for her house. If she's nuts enough to like the climate, the Gulf Coast awaits.

[The Animator]

14. Oh hell no I don't want them here!

I was born here, raised here. My family is here. I'm living in Canada now but my wife and I want to retire here. There is are also strong gay communities here, from the theme parks to South Beach, and Key West. I don't want these assholes making life more difficult or my LBGT friends. But I would like to offer them front row seats to the Guavaween Parade... their wittlebitty bwains would implode

[Warpy]

19. Well, they would never get Key West and we could build the wall they love so much

north of Miami, tell them it's to keep the Cubans out. Marketing is everything, you know.

I was born there, too, BTW.

[The Animator]

23. Make it north of Orlando and you've got a deal...

I don't want them in Central Florida either... A lot of my gay friends work in the theme parks... and we get enough assholes in the park anyway before throwing polittical nutbaggery into the mix.

North Florida is already full of conservatives, but you'll also have to wall up the northern border to keep them out of the rest of the US

[adigal]

32. I love St. Petersburg and Sarasota, good liberal towns

Please keep them south of the wall.

[Chan790]

15. You forgot one of the most-advantageous features.

It'll be really easy to wall off.

Just a jut north at the Mississippi border, then more-or-less due east until you hit the Atlantic Ocean.

[Delphinus]

9. What a moving story.

I feel her pain.

[usaf-vet]

11. Christi Salcedo may you be cancer free for the rest of your life.

Christi Salcedo may you also look back on the brave picture and stupid arguments 60-70 years from now and smile with pride that you spoke out.

[Lars39]

12. Good for her!

Takes a lot to post the reality.
I've got half those scars and my main concern is whether there's TP or not.
Damn crotch sniffers need to fuck right the hell off.

[yardwork]

13. +1M

[handmade34]

16. K&R

as a masculine looking woman who chooses to shave my head (at times) I can attest that "Things don't always go so well for women who don't look womanly enough"

so many people don't think...

[joeybee12]

17. Very brave woman...here's to her!

[demigoddess]

18. toast to her for bravery.

[Duval]

21. Another toast to her bravery.

That took a lot of guts.


Because I don't have a "toast" thingy.

[PatrickforO]

22. These evangelicals are the ones who are dangerous to us.

The whole bathroom thing is a non-issue and the 'christian' stance on it is downright offensive. If I'm ever in a store and I see a guard by the restrooms, I'm going to speak to the store manager and tell that person that I won't be buying anything in their store until they quit catering to religious nuts.

May this young woman stay forever cancer free.

[PoliticalMalcontent]

24. People are incredibly stupid.

This is the society certain politicians are crafting.

As much as I don't care for Clinton it has become apparent that Trump is far worse from the perspective of making bigotry A-OK (among other things).

That being said, this is a broken Democracy.

It really pisses me off to see such blindingly idiotic descimination. The one upside(?) to this is perhaps if enough non-trans people get accused hopefully people will realize how wrongheaded this law is. It's far too damaging in the meantime, though.

For shame, the idiots are taking over.

[47of74]

34. That would be nice if people would realize how wrong the law is.

But I doubt it, the people who don't know rabbit turds from rice krispies will probably never get it through their thick skulls that discrimination is not OK.

[3catwoman3]

41. "The people who don't know rabbit turds from Rice Krispies."

That is a brilliant turn of phrase that I hope I soon have the opportunity to steal. Thnx for my morning laugh.

[47of74]

42. Thanks!

It's a line from the 1975 movie The Giant Spider Invasion, "You're so dumb you wouldn't know rabbit turds from Rice Krispies!" The movie was featured on an episode of MST3K.

[Jopin Klobe]

25. God bless ...

... God bless ...

[Depaysement]

26. How exactly do these pee-brain matrons call security?

Do they run around, flail their arms and scream "chick with dick, chick with dick!?"

HB2 = we have nothing better to with our time.

[cynzke]

38. Common Sense.

Transgender people should be able to use the restroom, dressing room, locker room where they feel safe in AND all WOMEN should feel/BE safe. We must not swing to extremes, sacrifice security to blindly comply with the law because we might make a mistake. IF you have a REAL SAFETY CONCERN/FEAR about a person. IF they are acting suspiciously, out of the norm......Then NO ONE should be afraid to contact security. Better safe than sorry. Now it has to be a legitimate concern. Not because you THINK the person might be transgender or gay. Not because the person looks masculine/male. Not because you don't like the way the person is dressed. The person has to be acting in a way that suggests their interest/intent seems to be focused on harassing, causing harm to the other occupants which is ILLEGAL. If your gut instinct is telling you something is wrong, flee the area and contact security. Because sometimes your instincts are correct. I recently read a story about a swim center in New York state where the locker rooms are open to transgender people and a members of a girls swimming team are afraid to use the woman's locker room (they use a small family locker room) because there is a bald man with a beard who uses the shower/locker room. The staff of the swim center are aware of this person but claim they can not, by law, challenge this person's identity for fear they might be discriminating on the basis of sexual identity/transgendering. So the dilemma, is this person transgender or some old balding fart who wants to spy on naked women/girls and/or expose his genitals in the process? So the person might be transgender with a legal right to be there or the person is a possible sex offender, there ILLEGALLY as a voyeur/flasher. Too many laws are reactionary, legislated out of fear, and harmfully flawed. There needs to be common sense laws flexible enough to balance public safety with privacy. One should not be sacrificed for the other as seems to be the case at the swim center.

[IronLionZion]

39. See post 28

This is how:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027883450#post28

[justiceischeap]

27. So far the only people I've seen this bill effecting

are male parents taking their daughters into the mens room and masculine looking women and now flat-chested women (due to nature or cancer). I've yet to read a story where a transgender person has been turned away from the bathroom (not to say they won't). My point, is this bill in NC is having an effect nationwide that isn't good.

[IronLionZion]

28. I think people are looking for it more often

in the past many transgender folks would have probably passed without notice. But now people are more suspicious.

Then there's this nonsense:

[justiceischeap]

29. As a masculine-looking lesbian

I'm worried about this on a whole other level. I've received side eyes from time to time when going in the ladies room but no one has ever actually said anything. If that day comes, I don't know how I'll react.

[IronLionZion]

30. I hope you're safe

because lesbians have been beat up recently

[justiceischeap]

31. I won't let myself go down without a fight

I may abhor violence and conflict but I'm not a rug either.

[Thespian2]

33. K & R

especially for her courage in this hate-filled country...Why are conservatives so obsessed with genitalia?

[IronLionZion]

35. Their own lives are boring, sad, and repressed

so they need to be all up in someone else's personal lives.

Plus they have ideas in their heads of how a woman should look like, or how an American should look like, and seeing people that don't fit into that box seems to bother them for some reason.

[Thespian2]

36. Thanks

You described the conservatives I know perfectly...

[colorado_ufo]

37. What a beautiful woman

inside and out.

[niyad]

40. kudos to this brave woman. and a great big FU!!! to the narrow-minded, fear-driven bigots

whose lives are so small and devoid of meaning that who uses which bathroom is a big deal.

[Fast Walker 52]

43. so incredibly sad and fucked up

kudos to her!

[Initech]

45. Fuck the bathroom police.

They just flat out suck.