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.
I looked it up with my wife standing next to me, and imagine our eyes growing larger than dinner plates with the definition !
"Cisgender (often abbreviated to simply cis) describes related types of gender identity perceptions, where individuals' experiences of their own gender agree with the sex they were assigned at birth."
WHOA WHAT THE HELL
There is now a new term for "Normal" ?
This has got to stop. If I'm now being labeled strangely as "normal" then I think I need to organize something here.
So it is a good thing to be “cissy” (sounds like sissy) :-)
The bathroom brouhaha has some weird consequences now. Sissy men may be suspected to be non-cissy women...
yeah I have been outspoken about being skeptical about overreacting to all this. I think we have really let liberals get our hair (on our head and elsewhere) on fire. They get the best of us when they do. As an expression goes, revenge is best served cold. Will we really believe that God won’t be mocked, and doesn’t need our help here? Our fury may be saving liberals from “karma” that they would otherwise be reaping.
Bruce Jenner had the 1st CA legal same sex marriage given that he is now a she, but used to be married to a real she, when he was a she.
Jeez, my head is spinning.
BS
First pitch, right over the plate, ...
Navy Patriot says: HOAX
Let's see how it pans out!
Yea. Would you rather be called normal, or cis? It’s the same thing only different.
I meant BS, it never happened. This is the second coordinated report of someone “being harrassed.’ For some reason, it always happens to be an LBGTQIXYZ activist.
Unless life imitates hoaxes?
Just send them to Target.
Yeah...I had to look it up also...
That’s exactly what it is...NORMAL....
The liberals had to invent a new word for it....
“The DNA doesn’t lie
Jenner is still a guy”
Quick, what is an un-cissy sissy?
It’s the new Marxist religion for the purpose of destroying free society by inventing things we aren’t allowed to talk about that isn’t a crime.
This will come to blows. Let it be. I’m ready.
Would that be the same thing as an “anti-cis”?
There are security cameras all over a typical large retail store, even in the entrances and exist of restrooms. Unless this purported assault took place in one of the stalls, there will be video.
I don’t really know any more. These are strange new rules.
I think these strange new rules should just be snickered at, not raged at. It’s not worth our rage. God won’t be mocked. A semi truck shouldn’t be worried about tricycles blocking the road. Just do it right ourselves, and let the world watch. The problem is when we do it wrong, and frankly there’s been a lot of this in Christendom. Jesus will forgive but Jesus won’t excuse, He insists that we learn and practice ourselves what we preach to others, that the gifts of sex be kept dedicated and pure.
Sorry FRiend, they have a long way to go yet.
It's difficult to comprehend what or how, but it's going to get worse.
Remember, this is yet another ruse to keep our attention off of the things they are doing - the real evil - behind the scenes.
Peace.
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