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 ...
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.
Yup.
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.
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.
Okay that’s another matter. I’m just trying to explain the meaning of the term.
How’s that Hopey Dopey Changey workin’ out?
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.
You probably don’t go out of your way to dress in men’s clothing either.
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.
- Oh, bother...
How very convenient.
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.
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
PS. No, not an excuse for having short hair, but an excuse to make up the bathroom story.
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?
I don’t find her story very believable either.
I think thou may be correct; Hoax Alert.
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