Conservative lawmakers in several red states want to force transgender people to use restrooms that align with their gender assigned at birth.
But here’s what happened when a 25-year-old trans man, Luca Strobel, tried to use the ladies room at a South Carolina bar, where he was picking up his friend, Caroline Frady, as her ‘sober ride’ home.
Following a long drive to the bar, Strobel said he stepped inside the men’s room to relieve himself. But, there were no stalls – only urinals – making it inaccessible to him as a trans man.
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From Erin In The Morning:
At first, an employee warned both Strobel and his friend against entering the bathroom of the “opposite” sex, but after a brief back-and-forth, Strobel said he believed he had permission to do so. He also said he and Frady were the only two people in the restroom, which Frady confirmed to Erin in the Morning.
That’s when a man who said he was the bar owner burst into the women’s room, peering over the stall to look at Strobel as he used the restroom.
“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.”
He said the owner and employee ejected him and his friend from the bar—grabbing and pushing them out as they reportedly called Strobel anti-trans slurs. The police were waiting at the door, Strobel said.
The officer cuffed him “so tight that I can’t even feel my fingers,” Strobel said. “I still have a bruise on my knuckle.” Meanwhile, his arresting officer allegedly kept calling him a “little girl.”
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Strobel didn’t get booked, but when he got to the police station he tried to ask questions the officers reportedly refused to answer. “They just kept saying, ‘Take it up in court, take it up in court, take it up in court.’”
Strobel goes on to say he was eventually released on $500 bond, barred from entering Sand Dollar Social Club via a trespass notice, and issued a ticket for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
It’s worth underscoring that NO ONE was in the ladies room when Strobel went in. And his friend Caroline accompanied him to help avoid any conflict.
AND Strobel is emphatic that he had not consumed a single drink — he was there for the sole purpose of being the sober driver. He adds that officers did not breathalyze him.
Strobel said he plans on defending himself in court, but has since started a GoFundMe crowdfundraiser to relocate to California.
Read more at Erin In The Morning.
1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use.
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