Posted on 05/16/2016 3:42:47 PM PDT by Celerity
Even cisgender people aren’t safe from the transphobic mania over bathrooms.
A Connecticut woman, who sports a pixie haircut, says she was harassed in a Walmart restroom by a woman who apparently mistook her as transgender.
After posting a Facebook video about the incident, Aimee Toms said she’s been threatened by internet trolls and called a “lesbian” and “whore.”
“People have irrational fears, I'd like for them to know this simply isn't something to be so angry about,” Toms, 22, told the Daily News.
“Transgender people affect their lives in no way, shape, or form.”
The alleged incident comes as North Carolina’s obsessive quest to restrict transgender bathroom use has exploded into the national issue, with the Justice Department suing the state over the law it called “state-sponsored discrimination.”
Aimee Toms, 22, of Naugatuck, Conn., was mistaken for a transgender person and harassed in a Walmart bathroom. Aimee Toms, 22, of Naugatuck, Conn., was mistaken for a transgender person and harassed in a Walmart bathroom. In the ongoing debate over the state’s HB2 law, one school district has reportedly allowed students to carry pepper spray to ward off transgender students in bathrooms.
Toms said in her video she was using the bathroom at a Danbury Walmart Friday when a woman suddenly approached her from behind and yelled, “You are not supposed to be here! You need to leave!” The woman then flipped off Toms, told her she’s “disgusting” and stormed out, Toms said.
Toms said she believes her short hair, and the baseball cap she wore that day, made the woman mistake her for a transgender woman using the women’s bathroom — which, in Connecticut, is perfectly legal.
“I can get why at first glance she would mistake me for somebody who’s transgender,” Toms said in her Facebook video, which has been viewed nearly 20,000 times she posted it Friday.
But she was left shaken by seeing the hysteria firsthand.
Walmart has remained silent on the national debate over transgender bathroom use, even though its competitor Target took a firm stance supporting transgender customers.Walmart has remained silent on the national debate over transgender bathroom use, even though its competitor Target took a firm stance supporting transgender customers. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) "This same thing happened in the 1960s when black people wanted to use the same bathrooms as white people," she said in the video.
"This is nothing different. History repeats itself."
Toms said she is cisgender and dating a man. She also said in the video a man once followed her into a women’s bathroom and tried to rape her — further proof, she said, that the fear of transgender terror in bathrooms is misplaced.
Toms said she didn’t report the incident, and Walmart did not respond to messages from the Daily News.
But the retail chain has thus far remained silent on the topic of transgender bathroom use — even though Target, one of its competitors, emphatically stated it is fine with transgender shoppers using whichever restroom they choose. The News asked Walmart to clarify where it stands on the debate.
Should have been "Nifonged" a long time ago. Blumenthal is a fascist of the worst sort.
an eastbound train almost took him out.
Which means that that train has had more of a positive influence on the American way than any of CT’s residents.
Myself included.
I hope Blumenthal keeps a good eye on the wind wherever he is.
Another false claim to draw attention to herself.
The alleged incident comes as North Carolina’s obsessive quest to restrict transgender bathroom use has exploded into the national issue...”
Obsessive quest... is this a news report or a press release from the White House?
What’s that?!
I was just about to post something similar!
Straight or normal is more common language the cisgender, which is just another made-up term.
Why not? Our "lawmakers" recently passed an act to punish sanctuary cities - why does it take another act/law to punish someone for breaking current laws? It's all smoke screens - they will punish the "cities" but not those who run the cities by arresting/fining them personally.
I wonder if the article you posted has any corroborative proof or if it's just the "cisgender's" word being taken as fact.....
She’s a Liar, Liar pants on fire. The hoax will be announced on page 84 after the borahrah disappears.
False flag fabrication to offset the horror stories that are coming.
Almost certainly made up, but impossible to disprove. No one is named, and the alleged incident took place in a restroom (the only place in Walmart not covered by security cameras).
Good father.
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