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 ...
A male dressing as a woman as a ploy to get into the women’s restroom is not necessarily gay. In fact I would suspect the opposite.
Notice that today that any celebrity female never comes out and says they’re “straight”
Exactly. This is the problem with this whole thing.
How do you police such a thing. There are many women who even dressed up in a dress and heels, do not look particularly feminine. There are few ways to tell that are not intrusive of personal rights (looking at genitals or blood test). So how does this get policed at millions of restrooms in the country?
I don’t see a way to do it honestly.
I’m not sure transgenderism is gay in the first place. But I’m certainly no expert.
But even butch women are women.
So how to make this call?
Dress and hair laws?
I don’t see an easy solution here does not violate the 4th Amendment and that could be accomplished on a case by case basis in millions of restrooms and changing rooms across the country.
This is so sad. There was no problem before. Transgender women have been using women’s restrooms for decades. They aren’t safe in men’s rooms.
Now lesbians are being attacked in the bathrooms they are supposed to use.
LET PEOPLE PEE. Sheesh.
No, I’m saying as dressing as a woman as a ploy ... not transgenderism or cross dressing as a fetish.
So ‘gaydar’ (as suggested by the poster) is not going to help.
I’m sure there are some doing it for sexual kicks.
It’s pretty thin gruel, though. And besides, it’s
hard to find a B cup in size 36. ;)
I wear a Cub Scout leader uniform sometimes, or pieces of my daughter's worn-out Coast Guard uniform, or shorts and a t-shirt for yardwork.
You can go around in pants and a shirt, or a velvet gown with pearls, and your Judi Dench haircut (that's my ideal, too ;-), and nobody says anything but, "Nice haircut, ma'am."
Because outside of grade school and the fantasy worlds of leftists, nobody really cares how anyone else dresses or does their hair.
Today’s narcissists have the world at their feet.
“This is so sad. There was no problem before. Transgender women have been using women’s restrooms for decades. They aren’t safe in men’s rooms.”
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This is true HOWEVER in the past if they were caught in the women’s room they were thrown out. Now we can’t throw them out. that is the difference.
Now also men dressed as women come in and use cell phones and other recording devices to take pictures of women. This technology was not around in the past as it is today and keeps getting better. We are losing our privacy.
This is why no males should be in where women are in a state of undress or semi-undress.
This is why no males should be in where women are in a state of undress or semi-undress.
It’s Walmarts for goodness sakes! All standards are dropped at the door!!!!
I wasn't ASSIGNED a sex at birth --- I was BORN female!
Geez Louie. Now we can't call ourselves male or female? We have to have some mentally disturbed person make-up a new name for us?
No males who aren’t trying to be women should ever be in the women’s restroom.
But transgenders are bothering no one and have been using our restrooms for years. Where else can they go? As long as transgender is a treatment for gender dysphoria, it needs to be as respected as chemotherapy. Both really bad treatments but legal and medical at this time in history. We are told to REVERE the bald people suffering from cruel medical treatment; at least have pity for the people trying their doctor’s treatment of trying to be another gender.
I’ll bet this is a HOAX
You should have seen where I lived in Switzerland. The women almost ALL had really short hair. Above the shoulders. I was like a freak with mid length hair. Especially the married women. And all wore pants every day. I think their mothers had never ever worn pants and they were still “rebelling” in getting to wear pants. At my office I was very popular with the men (though I was a young married girl). The women had all removed almost all femininity. Even though they were all secretaries! And wore bedroom slippers in the office! I felt I was in bizarro world.
Looks like you found one.
“My imagination has failed me. Do women get undressed or semi-undressed outside the stalls in women’s restrooms??”
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Oh Please!!!! I’m also referring to fitting rooms and locker rooms. You can’t figure that one out?
In the bathroom stall they are in a state of semi undress or can’t you figure that out as well? Why else are men sneaking in to take pictures? Butt-head is hoping to get a picture of some girls butt! The only one he will ever see in his whole life.
Heh. Sure as shootin’.
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