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Lesbian riled by boot from ladies room
NY Daily News ^ | 6/30/07 | RICH SCHAPIRO

Posted on 07/03/2007 10:11:56 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim

A masculine lesbian was kicked out of a Greenwich Village restaurant after a bouncer - who believed she was a man - saw her in the ladies' bathroom, the woman charged yesterday.

Khadijah Farmer said she felt humiliated by her experience at Caliente Cab Co. on Seventh Ave., which took place last Sunday shortly after the city's gay pride march.

"I felt violated ... to say the least," said Farmer, 27. "I really thought that especially in New York City, especially in the heart of the Village, things like this had stopped happening."

Farmer said she went into the popular Mexican restaurant with her girlfriend and another pal about 10:20 p.m.

The trio ate shrimp and nachos before Farmer, who is 5-feet-5 and has short hair, excused herself to go to the rest room.

[Khadijah Farmer was mistaken for a man in the ladies' room at Caliente Cab Co. and shoved out by a bouncer.]

Just as she was about to enter the bathroom, a woman walked out, flashed her a nasty look and said, "This is the women's bathroom," according to Farmer, who is an HIV counselor.

"I replied, 'I know that. Thank you. This is where I'm supposed to be,'" Farmer said, noting that she was wearing a yellow polo shirt, blue jeans and sneakers.

Moments later, a bouncer burst into the ladies room and began banging on her stall and yelling at her to leave, she said.

The bouncer refused to believe that Farmer was a woman even after she emerged from the stall and attempted to show him her driver's license, she said.

"He totally dismissed that," she said, adding that the bouncer told her "he wanted me out of his bathroom and restaurant."

Farmer was then led out of the restaurant - and her friends were made to pay the bill for their abbreviated meal, she said.

Michael Silverman, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, demanded that the restaurant compensate Farmer for violating her civil rights and adopt a policy banning discrimination.

A manager at the Caliente Cab Co. declined to comment.

"I'm comfortable with who I am," Farmer said. "I refuse to change. I don't do anything to accentuate any type of masculinity. I'm just me."


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1 posted on 07/03/2007 10:11:58 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim

U-G-L-Y You ain’t got no alibi!


2 posted on 07/03/2007 10:13:54 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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3 posted on 07/03/2007 10:14:29 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Would'a fooled me too.....
4 posted on 07/03/2007 10:14:38 AM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck ("Flying is like Life: Know where you are, where you're going, and how to get there." - 'Ol Dad)
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5 posted on 07/03/2007 10:14:49 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: massgopguy

I see no breasts for a woman(?) of her size.


6 posted on 07/03/2007 10:16:05 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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7 posted on 07/03/2007 10:16:27 AM PDT by Bobalu (I guess I done see'd that varmint for the last time....)
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To: kiriath_jearim

The bouncer was right. There should be no lawsuit against the company. This is not discrimination. This is not a “hate crime”, although I suspect that she will call it that.
Too flippin bad if she didn’t like her treatment.


8 posted on 07/03/2007 10:16:30 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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The bouncer refused to believe that Farmer was a woman even after she emerged from the stall and attempted to show him her driver's license, she said.

She showed him the wrong thing.

9 posted on 07/03/2007 10:17:03 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Oh, come on! Who’s he trying to kid?


10 posted on 07/03/2007 10:17:16 AM PDT by Pete (Run, Vaclav, run!!)
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To: kiriath_jearim

The bouncer is in need of sensitivity training. He should have looked under the stall door to see what direction his/her toes were pointed before determining what he/she was/is. Ha!


11 posted on 07/03/2007 10:17:17 AM PDT by InsensitiveConservative
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To: kiriath_jearim

Looks like a dude to me


12 posted on 07/03/2007 10:17:22 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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LOL. Ya beat me to it.


14 posted on 07/03/2007 10:17:30 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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"The bouncer refused to believe that Farmer was a woman even after she emerged from the stall and attempted to show him her ..... driver's license, she said."

I was expecting something different.

15 posted on 07/03/2007 10:18:05 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: mvpel

Pat was a dyke, right?


16 posted on 07/03/2007 10:18:13 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: kiriath_jearim

I just don’t get it. I thought the point of being a lesbian was being attracted to women, not to somebody who looks more male than most males out there. If another woman is attracted to “that” why not just go after the real thing?


17 posted on 07/03/2007 10:18:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: kiriath_jearim

I pass that restaurant every morning on my way downtown. Always wondered what the food was like.


18 posted on 07/03/2007 10:19:25 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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She must be extremely butch looking , does she have a goatee???

Yes, a huge one, just not where you would expect.

19 posted on 07/03/2007 10:19:44 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution ? 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: HEY4QDEMS
Looks like a dead-wringer for serial killer Wayne Williams


20 posted on 07/03/2007 10:20:07 AM PDT by JMK (One of the lucky few -- escaped from NJ during the Florio years!)
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