Posted on 07/17/2021 4:50:02 PM PDT by Libloather
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police declared an unlawful assembly and fired non-lethal projectiles to disperse an unruly crowd on Saturday after a dueling protest over transgender rights at a Los Angeles spa turned violent.
The protests stemmed from a video that circulated online earlier this month, in which an irate customer complained to the staff at Wi Spa that a transgender woman was in the women's section of the spa.
The video sparked controversy after the spa defended its policy of allowing transgender customers in its facilities, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Police declared an unlawful assembly in front of the spa in Koreatown around 11 a.m. when demonstrators against transgender access to the spa's facilities clashed with counter protesters and some in the crowd threw smoke bombs and other objects at officers, Det. Meghan Aguilar, a spokeswoman for the LAPD, said.
Video posted on Twitter shows officers in riot gear hitting protesters with batons and firing bean bag rounds and other projectiles. At one point, a woman was hit in the abdomen, causing her to fall to the ground.
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He needs then to go all in. Prove the trans.
My health club is in a Catholic Hospital. They would never allow such perverse actions. They even monitor the hot tub to make sure things don’t get out of control.
Yeah, it takes more effort, but there are good places
This is the craven "free-market" excuse. Its hardly that simple.
First of all, the woman who opposed having to see the naked man in the woman's shower was attacked as a bigot. Secondly, what spa will ever be safe for her and people who think like her, if men-pretending-to-be-women are allowed anywhere?
What would happen to a spa that says - we definitely do not allow mis-gendered or transgendered people - come to our spa!? I'm sure you have heard of the baker in Colorado who refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding. They man has been persecuted by the state and the gay mafia for the last 10 years.
Just poke everybody’s eyes out. That solves all the problems humans have. Except for “stink”. That’s a whole other problem
20+ years ago I pointed out that men in women’s showers would be the result of gay rights.
Nobody took me seriously then.
How did you intuit that?
Then should turn their anger against those of their fellow women who have been yapping for years “trans women are women”. Shun any woman who says that. Scream in her face that she’s a lunatic.
Nothing will change until that happens.
Public acceptance of Gay sexual preferences must lead to public acceptance of all non-normal sexual preferences which includes a group of men who want to be women but not have their penises chopped off before they go into the girl’s shower.
If you accept the former, you get the latter.
There is no longer a logical basis for opposition.
Had we maintained culture’s previous status quo (approximately: do what you want behind closed doors) , we wouldn’t be here.
May I respectfully suggest exceptions for Jerrold Nadler, Stacey Abrams, Michael Moore and the on air "talent" of CNN and MSNBC (Toobin....)? And the protest marchers who always seem to have 80% overweight participants among them?
Transgenderism was not the locus of their complaint. They complained because the transwoman still had its man parts, which s/he paraded naked in front of the natural women's little girls.
AP is fake news!
Persons like that claim that they are lesbians.
Where? The democrats they keep voting for passed the laws that required the spa to let him in the women’s section.
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