Sex and Love | October 12, 2007 | 5 comments

Lesbian Thrown Out For Using Women's Toilet Sues Restaurant

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/nyregion/10kickout.html?_r=1&em&ex=1192161600&en=c87eeda34...

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Women have been thrown out of men’s bathrooms, men who identify as women have been thrown out of women’s bathrooms and, of course, men have been known to get into trouble in men’s rooms. But women minding their own business inside women’s rooms have rarely been an issue, until now.

Yesterday, a New York woman filed suit against a West Village restaurant for being thrown out of a women’s room there by a bouncer who, she said, did not care she was really female.

The woman, Khadijah Farmer, 28, who lives in Hell’s Kitchen, said in an interview that she was at the Caliente Cab Company restaurant on Seventh Avenue with her companion and a friend after the gay pride parade on June 24 when she left the table to go to the women’s room. While she was there, a male bouncer burst in.

“He began pounding on the stall door saying someone had complained that there was a man inside the women’s bathroom, that I had to leave the bathroom and the restaurant,” Ms. Farmer said. “Inside the stall door, I could see him. That horrified me, and it made me feel extremely uncomfortable. I said to him, ‘I’m a female, and I’m supposed to be in here.’
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5 comments // Lesbian Thrown Out For Using Women's Toilet Sues Restaurant

  • willbpayne
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      willbpayne  

    • indeed, how can one prove much of anything these days without "showing the goods"? people should just bite the bullet and install more single-occupancy toilets (where gender doesn't matter), so stuff like this doesn't happen so much...

    • 4 years ago
  • AshleyMaria
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      AshleyMaria  

    • I can't believe the management allowed this. I can certainly understand though that the person complaining didn't realize it was a woman since she looked like a man. How does someone prove they're female without showing the goods?? And all of this happening after a gay pride parade? This "complainer" should know better!

    • 4 years ago
  • ajpacella
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      ajpacella  

    • image0434:

      I'm curious why you headlined your post "Lesbian Thrown Out..."

      No where in the original article is Ms. Farmer identified as lesbian.

      And even if she is lesbian this matter has nothing to do with sexuality as much as it has to do with gender identification and discrimination.

    • 4 years ago
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