Where do you think a transgendered woman would get ticketed for using a women’s room? In Texas, of course:
Parkland police cited Paula Witherspoon, whose legal name is Paul Witherspoon, for disorderly conduct on April 25.
“It was definitely humiliating, degrading,” she said. “I felt like I was being discriminated against.”…Witherspoon said she offered to show the officer a transition letter from her doctor that states, “She is expected to use facilities consistent with her external presentation, which is female.”
But Parkland police told her they have to go by what is on her license, Witherspoon said.
As plainly as I can put it: Witherspoon was being discriminated against. Is Texas going to institute genitalia checks for restrooms, now? Basically, she was ticketed because someone was offended because she used the restroom. If I had the power to ticket everyone who offends me in public restrooms—through racist graffiti, through lack of hygiene, through inappropriate attempts at small talk at urinals—the city of Seattle would have tens of thousands of additional dollars coming in every year. But I don’t have that power. Because other people’s business is not my business.
Discrimination? The officer had no idea what was in this person’s pants. The officer went by the identity on the license. Gotta love the drama.
As long as we have segregated bathrooms, It IS your business who else walks in there. But I don’t know WHY they are segregated. I don’t have sex in there, so why does it matter what sex I am?
I’m with the first clown. She should take that letter straight to the DMV and have the gender changed on her license.
“Gotta love the drama.” Another horse s**t statement by thebadsteed.
“The (bad) steed is a crooked lumbering animal; he is insolent and proud, shag-eared and deaf, hardly yielding to whip and spur.”
-Socrates