Woman suing Fishbones after being mistaken for a man and kicked out of the woman s restroom - WXYZ.com

I highlight this case for 3 reasons,,,

1. So Peter LaBarbera, you still feeling like a Jew?  In other words, it is and LGBTI issue.
2. It is an LGBTI issue that may have "interesting" legal ramifications, especially in regards to the type of politicking that occurs - ie. Michelle Duggar.
3. It is something I can relate too.

You see I am not exactly the most feminine of individuals.  I smoke, I chew, I cuss like a sailor.  At points in my life my hair has been buzzed to a crew.  And as an athlete,,, lets just say I ain't no gymnast and I walk like I just got off a horse.  Although I'm a 44DD, while wearing a coat, many times I have been called sir.  I have had little kids ask me if I was a boy or a girl. 

It use to bother me especially when I was younger.  Now I laugh hysterically and flash my tits and threaten to make people feel 'em just so they are sure (uh,,,not the little ones , just adults).  But, I shouldn't have to. And yes, I am being blunt for a reason as I do not understand what the fuss is all about.

You see, as I pointed out in my first piece concerning Michelle Duggar, all she does is regurgitate the falsehoods perpetuated by Paul Cameron.  Falsehoods "which are derived from the false assumption that men who molest boys are gay, despite the fact that Groth's original study found that none of the men identified himself as homosexual. Instead, the pedophiles were either heterosexual outside of their criminal behavior or were what Groth termed 'fixated pedophiles with no interest in sex with adults.'"

By playing on the "bathroom predator" line of argument, Duggar et al are equating "transgender people to sex offenders and pedophiles, and suggesting that men will simply pretend to be trans as a means to assault women and children in private facilities. These talking points play on the public's fears, and ignore the fact that transgender individuals are far more likely to be the victim of physical or sexual assault in a place of public accommodation than they are to be the agressor."

It's not like Duggar et al have a leg to stand on with their arguments.  But fear wins out and people should know this by now.  It's not as if the "hets" are a persecuted and demonized minority as LaBarbera seems to think.  And it doesn't even matter if Bogorad is part of the LGBTI community.

What matters as Suzi Chase writing over at Suzi's Place points out,

Unless the manager and the guard are ruthless sociopaths who love to see trans people suffer,,,it’s likely that they just never thought about it,,,.  [I]t makes no sense that a woman whose gender history is recognizable should be required to use a different restroom from a woman whose gender history is not,,,.
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This world isn’t ideal. Transgender bathroom use isn’t on the radar of most cisgender people and won’t be, unless we change that. It is up to us to make sure that people understand why it simply can’t be any other way.

If we don’t, more incidents like the one in Detroit will occur, and more people will get hurt.

As the following will attest, what we have is the first known "innocent" victim of the false GOP narrative and moral panic about transpeople in the bathroom.

Cortney Bogorad has lived in Detroit all her life and has eaten and Fishbones multiple times. But, she hasn't returned since the January 23rd incident, when, she says, she was kicked out of the restaurant's women's bathroom - accused of being a man.

Bogorad says she went to use the restroom and a security worker yelled from outside for whatever man is in the restroom to come out now.

“As I came out of the stall, this gentleman - who was a security guard - came in the bathroom, and before I was even completely out of the bathroom he grabbed me by the arms and pushed me up against the wall, told me that boys aren’t allowed in this restroom," she says. "This could have happened to anybody. There are lots of females out there with short hair. some people might think we’re boys, but, at the end of the day, we’re not"

Woman suing Fishbones after being mistaken for a man and kicked out of the woman s restroom - WXYZ.com