Teen Says Restaurant Server Forced Her To Prove She Was Female

A Minnesota teenager has filed a charge of discrimination against a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant, alleging a server followed her into the women’s restroom and demanded she “prove” she was a girl.

Gender Justice, a Minnesota gender-equality organization, has filed the charge on the teen’s behalf.

A Minnesota teen files a charge of discrimination against a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant after she alleged that a server followed her into the women’s restroom and demanded she “prove” she was a girl. https://t.co/tGlfetULbk

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 12, 2025

From NBC News:

Gerika Mudra, 18, went to dinner in April with a friend in Owatonna, about an hour south of Minneapolis. When she went to the restroom, a server followed her inside and banged on the stall door while saying: “This is a women’s restroom. The man needs to get out of here,” according to Gender Justice.

Mudra, a biracial lesbian who isn’t transgender, said that she has been in similar situations before, when people have suggested she’s in the wrong restroom, but when she tells them she’s a woman they leave her alone.

However, when she came out of the stall at Buffalo Wild Wings and told the server, “I am a lady,” she said, the server responded, “You have to get out now,” Gender Justice said in a statement.

Mudra said she felt she had to prove to the server that she is a woman, so she unzipped her hoodie to show she has breasts. The server didn’t say anything in response but left the restroom, Mudra said.

At this writing, the company that represents Buffalo Wild Wings hasn’t responded to NBC News’ request for comment.

What this really comes down to is an expanding social landscape where anyone who doesn’t conform to narrow expectations of what girls and women ‘should’ look like are now being targeted by folks who believe they have permission to do so.

Even if Mudra were transgender, she would still have a case as the state’s Human Rights Act protects people from discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

For the record, some stats via the Movement Advancement Project:

• Twenty-one states and Washington, D.C. have laws that explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in public accommodations

• Two states explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation but not gender identity

• Six states view existing measures against discrimination based on sex to also include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• Twenty-one states don’t have explicit protections from discrimination based on gender identity in public accommodations

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