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Lesbian Says Restaurant Ejected Her for Looking Masculine
AP via Yahoo! ^ | 07/03/2007 | Karen Matthews

Posted on 07/03/2007 9:52:45 AM PDT by BJClinton

NEW YORK (AP) -- A bouncer at a popular West Village restaurant ejected a lesbian customer from the bathroom after last month's gay pride march because she looked too masculine, the woman charged Monday.

Khadijah Farmer, 27, said the incident happened June 24 at Caliente Cab Company on Seventh Avenue South, where she had gone with her girlfriend and another friend to have dinner after the march.

Farmer said she was using the women's bathroom when a male bouncer burst in and banged on the stall door, saying a customer had complained that there was a man in the women's room.

"I said, 'I am a woman and I am where I am supposed to be,'" Farmer said. "I offered to show him some identification. I was told that's neither here nor there."

Caliente Cab Company, a Mexican restaurant known for its enormous margaritas and checker-cab decor, did not immediately return a call for comment.

Farmer said the bouncer escorted her to her table and forced her party to pay their check and leave.

"I felt embarrassed and humiliated," said Farmer, a Manhattan resident who works as a counselor at a residential program for people with disabilities. "I'm just hurt that even my wanting to prove that I'm female wasn't enough."

Farmer is being represented by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, which is demanding that the restaurant train its staff not to discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression. No formal complaint or lawsuit has been filed.

New York City law prevents discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

Farmer is not a transgender person, but she said her appearance is masculine enough that she is sometimes mistaken for a man.

"I'm never upset with that," she said. "I say very kindly, 'I'm female.' Usually I get, 'I'm so sorry.'"


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Some jokes write themselves.
1 posted on 07/03/2007 9:52:47 AM PDT by BJClinton
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To: BJClinton

So she should be happy as a clam.


2 posted on 07/03/2007 9:53:36 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.)
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To: EveningStar; JRios1968

STWIWTGO ping.


3 posted on 07/03/2007 9:54:30 AM PDT by BJClinton (Thompson/DeLay 2008)
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To: BJClinton
"I'm just hurt that even my wanting to prove that I'm female wasn't enough."

Farmer is being represented by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund

Oh, the irony.

4 posted on 07/03/2007 9:55:35 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
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To: BJClinton

"That's a maaan, baby."

5 posted on 07/03/2007 9:57:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: BJClinton
"I'm never upset with that," she said. "I say very kindly, 'I'm female.' Usually I get, 'I'm so sorry.'"

Hmm

6 posted on 07/03/2007 9:57:25 AM PDT by ladtx ("You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks." Will Rogers)
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To: BJClinton
She's very pretty.


7 posted on 07/03/2007 9:57:54 AM PDT by agent_delta ( Who needs an iPhone? I still use my Apple Newton.)
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To: BJClinton

"That's a man baby, yeah!"

8 posted on 07/03/2007 9:58:11 AM PDT by rattrap
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To: BJClinton
More proof that lesbianism, like yoga, is disgusting in real life, and only becomes beautiful in the hands of a skilled pornographer.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

9 posted on 07/03/2007 9:58:35 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: agent_delta

Geez, (s)he looks more manly than Barack HUSSEIN Obama!


10 posted on 07/03/2007 9:59:17 AM PDT by ssaftler (Beware the Reverend L. Ron Gore and his Church of Climatology.)
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To: BJClinton
Farmer is being represented by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, which is demanding that the restaurant train its staff not to discriminate on the basis of gender identity and expression. No formal complaint or lawsuit has been filed.

New York City law prevents discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

Farmer is not a transgender person, but she said her appearance is masculine enough that she is sometimes mistaken for a man.

So the Bud Light guys CAN wear dresses in NYC and get "Ladies Night" discounts. AND they can go into the women's room.

Although this "victim" is not a guy, she's teaming with an organization for guys who DO want to add to gender confusion in public.

11 posted on 07/03/2007 10:00:15 AM PDT by weegee (If the Fairness Doctrine is imposed on USA who will CNN news get to read the conservative rebuttal)
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To: ssaftler

But just a little more girly than Hillary.

or Rosie.


12 posted on 07/03/2007 10:02:15 AM PDT by agent_delta ( Who needs an iPhone? I still use my Apple Newton.)
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To: weegee

FYI... I’m confused.


13 posted on 07/03/2007 10:02:42 AM PDT by agent_delta ( Who needs an iPhone? I still use my Apple Newton.)
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To: BJClinton

Before there were feminist groups to help masculine women understand that they were supposed to be lesbians, women like this were always allowed in the women’s room. Times have certainly changed.


14 posted on 07/03/2007 10:03:53 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: agent_delta
LOVED him in 'Who's line is it Anyway?'

psssttt..what does Wayne Brady have to do with this story anyway???

15 posted on 07/03/2007 10:07:14 AM PDT by Millee (Tagline free since 10/20/06)
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To: BJClinton

Now, I have to ask - what comes after a lawsuit like this? Bouncers being required to check the genitilia of the establishment’s customers prior to allowing them entry into a restroom?


16 posted on 07/03/2007 10:07:25 AM PDT by DangerDanger ("I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: agent_delta

It’s Pat!


17 posted on 07/03/2007 10:08:29 AM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: BJClinton; al baby; Allegra; Auntbee; Dashing Dasher; dfwddr; exile; feinswinesuksass; ...
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket TaЯd ping!
18 posted on 07/03/2007 10:10:54 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: DungeonMaster

*groan*


19 posted on 07/03/2007 10:11:33 AM PDT by BJClinton (Thompson/DeLay 2008)
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To: BJClinton

http://www.nydailynews.com/img/2007/06/30/amd_farmer.jpg


20 posted on 07/03/2007 10:11:42 AM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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