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Woman mistaken for transgender harassed in Walmart bathroom
newstimes.com ^ | May 16, 2016 | Matt DeRienzo

Posted on 05/28/2016 10:21:49 AM PDT by Morgana

DANBURY - Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the women’s bathroom at Walmart in Danbury Friday when a stranger approached her and said, “You’re disgusting!” and “You don’t belong here!”

After momentary confusion, she realized that the woman next to her thought - because of her pixie-style haircut and baseball cap - that she was transgender.

Besides being a pretty normal choice of style for women, Toms’ has a short haircut because she recently donated hair - for the third time - to a program that makes wigs for child cancer patients.

“I’ve had people call me all sorts of names for having short hair. I’ve had people call me a boy, I’ve had people call me a dyke, I’ve had people call me gay.” Toms said. “I’m grateful that that woman only called me disgusting and didn’t physically attack me … I was a victim of transphobia today as a cisgender female because my hair is short.”

Toms said she was supportive of transgender rights before Friday’s Walmart experience. She is close friends with several transgender people, including someone she went to high school with who went from prom queen to identifying as a male.

She thought her video would be seen only by friends and family, and was surprised to soon be getting messages of support from people “all across the country.”

(Excerpt) Read more at newstimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: cisgender; connecticut; fraud; homosexualagenda; ntsa; unisex; walmart
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To: Right Brother

41 posted on 05/28/2016 10:49:00 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Morgana

My daughter wears her hair even shorter than this woman. She has a very feminine body that no one could mistake as a man but she expects to have this happen to her one day.

However I kind of doubt that this woman is telling the truth.


42 posted on 05/28/2016 10:50:56 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Bratch
This is before she got fat. Not that bad...


43 posted on 05/28/2016 10:51:05 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yup.


44 posted on 05/28/2016 10:52:37 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai

Excuse for having short hair? She doesn’t need one.
But I guess that’s why I lean libertarian:
there are too many little dictators on both
the right and the left.


45 posted on 05/28/2016 10:54:10 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Menehune56

See they cant say normal person. Because those not normal are abnormal. Which they are.

Now someone will get on my a$$ here for calling a spade a spade. Too damn bad, self appointed “manner” nazis.


46 posted on 05/28/2016 10:54:30 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

Okay that’s another matter. I’m just trying to explain the meaning of the term.


47 posted on 05/28/2016 10:54:35 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Morgana

How’s that Hopey Dopey Changey workin’ out?


48 posted on 05/28/2016 11:02:49 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Right Brother

How did anyone mistake her for a guy again?

She looks like a typical Midwestern mom in her late 40s in the suburbs around me.


49 posted on 05/28/2016 11:03:02 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Tax-chick

You probably don’t go out of your way to dress in men’s clothing either.


50 posted on 05/28/2016 11:03:26 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: struggle

I’m so out of the loop. I need to set up a gofundme for new nail polish and a diet coke. Oh, and some new shoes.

Yeah, 99% of these victims are liars. I’m not buying her rubbish for a minute.


51 posted on 05/28/2016 11:03:44 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

- Oh, bother...


52 posted on 05/28/2016 11:04:21 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: NorthstarMom
A hip transgender activist who shops at Walmart? And she just happened to use the restroom at the same time as another woman who is at the opposite end of the political spectrum and who is in your face confrontational?

How very convenient.

53 posted on 05/28/2016 11:05:25 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Ditter; Chode
"My daughter wears her hair even shorter than this woman. She has a very feminine body that no one could mistake as a man but she expects to have this happen to her one day." That's what I said, know lots of women who wear their hair short and never have trouble. Back in the day (don't ask, it was the 80's after all) had my hair like Billy Idol and people knew I was female. singer billy idol photo: Billy Idol billyidol.jpg
54 posted on 05/28/2016 11:06:21 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: sparklite2

There are no dictators on the right, but those on the left typically accuse preachers of morality of dictating. And there is no really independent “libertarian” movement; just a version of the left that pretends to embrace the free market.


55 posted on 05/28/2016 11:07:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: DocRock

This is a made up incident

If this were simply a short haired woman complaining of harassment and having mainstream life record we might believe

But she’s not

They never are


56 posted on 05/28/2016 11:08:27 AM PDT by wardaddy (No wobbly Donald....full steam ahead)
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To: sparklite2

PS. No, not an excuse for having short hair, but an excuse to make up the bathroom story.


57 posted on 05/28/2016 11:09:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: SoCal Pubbie; Drew68

That’s cool, Drew68 was able to explain it. It’s the new “normal” that’s not so normal, because people have to play with words or else a certain part of our population must go to their “safe space” and have a temper tantrum.

Did I get that correct Drew?


58 posted on 05/28/2016 11:11:54 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Ditter

I don’t find her story very believable either.


59 posted on 05/28/2016 11:12:50 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Tax-chick

I think thou may be correct; Hoax Alert.


60 posted on 05/28/2016 11:13:58 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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