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FULL TITLE: Washington D.C. restaurant is fined $7,000 for demanding a transgender woman show her ID before using the bathroom - then kicked her out after she refused A Washington DC Cuban restaurant has been fined $7,000 for demanding a transgender woman show ID before using the ladies' restroom. Workers at a restaurant called Cuba Libre in the capital asked Charlotte Clymer for identification in June 2018 when she tried to use a women's bathroom, then followed her inside and told her to leave. Writing in a Twitter thread that has gone viral, Charlotte explained how when she went to...

A Washington, D.C., restaurant issued an apology to a transgender woman who said she was kicked out for trying to use the women’s bathroom. Charlotte Clymer, a communications staffer for the Human Rights Campaign, wrote about the incident on a Twitter thread Saturday afternoon. Clymer wrote that she was at Cuba Libre Restaurant and Rum Bar on Friday night for a bachelorette party when a staff member asked for her ID. She said he told her the identification needed to read “female” in order to use the women’s restroom. Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 ✔ @cmclymer Last night, I was told by the...