Trans man uses women’s restroom to follow the law. Police detained him for it...

[Jessica_Rose]

Trans man uses women's restroom to follow the law. Police detained him for it anyway.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/trans-man-uses-womens-restroom-to-follow-the-law-police-detained-him-for-it-anyway/

Daniel Villarreal (29 May 2025)

South Carolina doesn't have a law restricting trans bathroom use in businesses, and the trans man has an "F" gender marker on his government-issued identification, meaning that his restroom use matched his ID.

Luca Strobel, a 25-year-old transgender man, arrived at the Sand Dollar Social Club bar in Folly Beach around 11:15 p.m. on Friday, May 16 so he could be a designated driver for his friend...

When Strobel entered the men's room, he found that it only had three urinals with no dividers between them and no lock on the door, making it unable for him to use. So, after allegedly getting a female employee's permission to use the women's restroom, Strobel entered the facilities — no women were present...

"In other words, Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use — and he got arrested anyway, seemingly because of the panic surrounding gendered bathrooms," S. Baum wrote at the aforementioned website.

While peeing, a man who called himself the bar owner came into the women's restroom and looked over Strobel's stall.

"They're looking over the top of the stall at me without my clothes on," Strobel said in the video. "They can fully see me naked other than me having my shirt on, and they just start screaming that there's 'a man' in here."

[Lori Dee]

This is madness.

Operator: "911, what is your emergency?"
Bar Owner: "There's a man in the women's bathroom!"
Operator: "What are they doing?"
Bar Owner: "Peeing."
Operator: "We are sending the police!" 



At least he was gendered correctly.

[persphone]

I'm convinced all these policies are about the cruelty. Statistics surrounding anyone being assaulted in a bathroom show it isn't the trans people at fault, but these lawmakers don't care.

Every day this is an issue for me when I'm not at home. I doubt I'll ever "pass" but I'm femme enough to get harassed using the men's room......