Non-feminine women say there’s an “escalation” of harassment for... restroom

[Jessica_Rose]

Non-feminine women say there's an "escalation" of harassment for using the women's restroom

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/non-feminine-women-say-theres-an-escalation-of-for-using-the-womens-restroom/

John Russell (12 Aug 2025)

Gender nonconforming cis women in the U.K. are reporting increased incidents of having their presence in women's bathrooms and changing rooms challenged since the country's anti-trans Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.

"If you're masculine-presenting or butch lesbian, women's toilets are not a safe space. I've been spat on, screamed at and it's just so sad that this looks likely to get worse," one woman told the Guardian. "The looks of hate, the feeling that you just don't know if you're going to be safe, have really got worse since the ruling, to the extent I now either ask a friend to come in with me or use the disabled toilet, which I feel bad about because it's preventing them from accessing it."

Caz Coronel, a composer and producer, said she was recently confronted while waiting in line for the women's restroom at a concert venue by a man who insisted she belonged in the line for the men's room. He kept harassing her about waiting for the women's room until she told him, "Do you want to see my tits?"

"I have short hair and don't mind if people think I look male. I've often been called 'Sir', but when they see my face, they either apologize or ask me politely what I like to be called. But I've never had anyone approach me before in such a publicly aggressive way," she said. "What then flashed through my mind was: Is this what this ruling has done?"

[ChrissyRyan]

I do not think I would go so far to offer to show my boobs but I would be highly annoyed if I were told that perhaps I should be in the line for the men's room. 


Chrissy

[Lori Dee]

We just want to pee!

In a closed room, in a closed stall with a locked door. Leave us alone. Jeez.

[Asche]

It's about gender policing.  I suspect that the man knew she was a woman, but she didn't fit his narrow definition of a "real woman," so he harassed her.

The whole "trans women in sports" thing has given misogynists an excuse to go after girls in non-"feminine" activities -- there was a man who recently decided one of the (cis-)girls on a soccer team was trans and caused such a scene he had to be thrown out.

[ChrissyRyan]

We just want to use the restroom and leave!

Ughhhhh!