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In May, during a Kentucky Derby-themed event held at the hotel, Ansley Baker and Liz Victor said they were using a women’s multi-occupant restroom when a security guard entered and began banging on stall doors. The guard accused Baker of being a “man in the women’s bathroom,” Baker alleged, yelled that “no men are allowed,” and told her to leave. Baker said she and Victor were “heckled” by other women in line for the bathroom as they were escorted to the lobby, and even after she showed her ID with an “F” gender marker, security forced both of them to leave the hotel.

this story is so dumb ... the article leaves out the guard's gender, but imagine you're a woman using the restroom and a big dude comes knocking on all the stalls ... like, isn't this the very nightmare case that the conservatives are screeching about with trans women - that men violate women's spaces?

So the guard knocks on stalls and then physically removes a cis woman from the women's restroom, then kicks her off the property even after she proves she's a woman ... even worse, the idiocy of the guard is bolstered by the women in line for the bathroom ...

Meanwhile, I'm a trans woman, having used restrooms along with bigoted women who are entirely clueless that I'm not cis ... they don't actually care, they can't even tell - what's the point? The anti-trans panic has mostly victimized cis women, and when trans people comply with the transphobic policies by using the bathroom of their assigned sex, they get the same treatment: harassed out of the bathrooms, punished, or worse - subjected to assault or rape.

I'm not going to pretend we don't know why these policies exist, the people who created and push the policies are activists aiming to eliminate trans people, they want to eradicate us entirely - the end goal is to criminalize being trans, to forcefully detransition us in prisons, and when young people present as gender dysphoric, to go back to what they did in the 1960s like electroshock, lobotomies, and institutionalization.

The nicer alternative in the meantime is conversion therapy, which was found to double the risk of suicide ... conversion therapy goes against science, medicine, and ethics, which is why so many states have legislation against it.

This isn't about bathrooms, this is about terrorizing trans people back into the closet.