Earlier this week, I watched a video where Aimee Tom discusses a situation where some strange woman yelled at her for being in the women's restroom. Why? No one knows with complete certainty, but it's probably because the woman mistook Aimee for a transgender man. Aimee brings up a multitude of good points, so I suggest you watch the video and then continue reading.
Now, I admit I'm not a conservative and I truly don't care which bathroom a person uses. I may not understand what it feels like to be transgender, but I also don't understand what it feels like to be a man. But I still accept both transgender people and men.
Sadly, as I was looking for the original video to include, I found two other videos of egregious behavior. In the first one, a man attempts to follow a woman into the ladies' room. When she confronts him, he leaves but only after he blames her because she was wearing a man's clothes.
This second video is even worse. Some mall cops bully a girl into leaving the restroom because they will not believe that she's a girl. They never say why, but I'm guessing because she's wearing gender neutral clothes and has a low voice. The idiots even have the gall to ask her if she has ID, as if you need ID to use a restroom!!!!!
Seriously???
Let me explain something. I understand that a bunch of these conservatives are worried because they think that a man wants to go into the ladies' restroom to watch women pee. But a transgender woman is not a man dressed in drag - that would be a cross-dresser (or transvestite, for older people). A transgender woman is a person who is female and who happened to be born with a penis.
When a transgender woman goes to the restroom, do you know what she wants to do?
Check and maybe fix her hair.
Check her makeup.
Apply more lipstick or lip gloss.
Gossip with her friends about how the evening is going.
Apply perfume.
Wash her hands.
Change her baby's diaper.
Feed her baby (if there's a chair available.)
Use the toilet.
In other words, a transgender woman wants to do exactly what other women do.
And for all of you judgmental, fear-mongering jerks? What does it say about you that you think it's your right to judge how 'feminine' a woman must be to use the ladies' room? What does it say about you that you assume someone would assault someone in the ladies' room?
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