"Aux Armes, Citoyens! Let's talk bathrooms, shall we? I'm not sure how many states now outlaw transgendered men and women from using their appropriate facilities, but I'm confident many such laws apply only to bathrooms in public offices. Nonetheless, the outsized political attacks on trans people have created a kind of open season on anyone who might look out of place in this or that toilet."
"Luca's story gained attention through his TikTok video. I tried to find it but I couldn't navigate through a zillion unrelated posts, including one that featured three puppies chewing up a pair of expensive suede boots. Why this amusing act of destruction would find a place in the "Luca Strobel" TikTok search results is beyond me, but I enjoyed it. I did, however, find many other reports about Luca's story, so there you go."
"Anecdotally, there are citizens' arrests all over the country featuring far right vigilantes complaining about masculine women in the john to store managers and other authority figures. I read about these incidents every week, but I found several items in the last five minutes just by searching for "lesbian women's bathroom," including one from last month when a lesbian teen was followed into the bathroom by a staffer at a Minnesota Buffalo Wild Wings and asked to prove her gender."
Many U.S. states have laws that force transgender men and women to use bathrooms matching the sex on their birth certificates, often limited to public offices. Political attacks on trans people have led to widespread harassment and vigilante-style citizens' arrests targeting anyone who appears out of place in sex-segregated restrooms. Incidents include a South Carolina trans man, Luca Strobel, who was forcibly removed, handcuffed, and fined after using a women's restroom in a bar, and multiple reports of lesbian and masculine-presenting women being followed, confronted, or forced to prove their gender by staff or security.
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