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Title: Shocking video shows lesbian unable to prove gender being FORCIBLY REMOVED from
Post by: stephaniec on April 29, 2016, 01:30:24 AM
Shocking video shows lesbian unable to prove gender being FORCIBLY REMOVED from women's bathroom

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/04/28/shocking-video-shows-lesbian-unable-to-prove-gender-being-forcibly-removed-from-womens-bathroom/

Pink News/Joseph Patrick McCormick   04/28/2016

"A video has resurfaced which shows a lesbian being removed from a bathroom in the US, after she cannot prove that she is female.

The video, uploaded by blogger Tamara McDaniel, shows the woman being forcibly removed from a bathroom by police who ask her for ID. "
Title: Re: Shocking video shows lesbian unable to prove gender being FORCIBLY REMOVED from
Post by: Dee Marshall on April 29, 2016, 04:46:58 AM
From what I understand, Snopes says no. The video is from another incident having nothing to do with bathrooms.
Title: Re: Shocking video shows lesbian unable to prove gender being FORCIBLY REMOVED from
Post by: itsApril on April 29, 2016, 01:54:12 PM
Quote from: Dee Marshall on April 29, 2016, 04:46:58 AM
From what I understand, Snopes says no. The video is from another incident having nothing to do with bathrooms.

Well, actually, Snopes says "Mixture."  (i.e, partly true and partly false)  Here's the link to the Snopes analysis:

http://www.snopes.com/lesbian-ejected-nc-bathroom/

The video DOES show what it seems to show: a young female ejected from a women's restroom for being insufficiently "feminine" and lacking ID.

What it DOESN'T show is an incident under North Carolina's HB2.  The video has been circulating since at least December 2015.  Since this was several months before HB2 was enacted, this incident was not a direct consequence of HB2.

But the incident IS real.  And what it shows is exactly what North Carolina Republicans and Governor McCrory intend to make the new normal . . .
Title: Re: Shocking video shows lesbian unable to prove gender being FORCIBLY REMOVED from
Post by: stephaniec on April 29, 2016, 03:10:23 PM
thanks for putting this in perspective
Title: Re: Shocking video shows lesbian unable to prove gender being FORCIBLY REMOVED from
Post by: Ms Grace on April 29, 2016, 04:51:21 PM
Quote from: itsApril on April 29, 2016, 01:54:12 PM
But the incident IS real.  And what it shows is exactly what North Carolina Republicans and Governor McCrory intend to make the new normal . . .

Some butch cis lesbians are going to have a real hard time of things, but it's also going to be the thing that makes these bills implode once people like that woman start suing.
Title: Re: Shocking video shows lesbian unable to prove gender being FORCIBLY REMOVED from
Post by: RobynD on April 29, 2016, 05:33:22 PM
The civil rights lawyers in some of our Red states have to be seeing dollar signs in their sleep over these things. A pay day is coming.
Title: Re: Shocking video shows lesbian unable to prove gender being FORCIBLY REMOVED from
Post by: Promethea on April 29, 2016, 06:02:02 PM
Quote from: Ms Grace on April 29, 2016, 04:51:21 PM
Some butch cis lesbians are going to have a real hard time of things, but it's also going to be the thing that makes these bills implode once people like that woman start suing.

Not just butch cis women. Soon people will see the reasons why the obsession with passing is worthless. A lot of cis women, even femme cis women, look like what some people think trans women look like.