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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has reached agreement with a transgender advocacy group and will implement new regulations allowing people to use MTA public restrooms consistent with their gender expression.
The agreement ends a complaint filed with the New York City Commission on Human Rights involving a 70 year old transsexual who was arrested three times by transit police for using the women's restroom at Grand Central Terminal.
Helena Stone, 70, said an officer called her "a freak, a weirdo and the ugliest woman in the world" and warned her, "If I ever see you in the women's bathroom, I'm going to arrest you."
Here is one from the New York Daily News:
Girls' room his, too (http://www.nydailynews.com/10-24-2006/news/story/464637p-390955c.html)
"I would not like that," said Gloria David, a retiree from Connecticut. "I have nothing against gay men or drag queens, but they can use the men's room. I just don't want to go to the bathroom next to a man."
One rider feared predators might dress as women and lurk in the women's room.
But Rena Gantz, 23, a college student, shrugged off the settlement.
"It doesn't bother me because it is a reality," she said. "If they believe they are women, they should be treated as one."