Some people feel their privacy is violated because someone of another race uses the bathroom. So why not respect THEIR feelings?
Because ultimately, it doesn't matter one bit. If they're peeing and walking out, why the christ would you call the cops on them? If you watch the video you can even see the sweater bunch up on her boobs at a few points, for fuck's sake.
Her voice was neither feminine nor masculine, very much a stereotypical voice for a trans male or a "butch" lesbian. Her mannerisms, as I said, are inline with many other females when they're mad at someone, and I'm pretty sure I already said her appearance was neutral.
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I've had female friends that dressed like that. You can still tell they're female because boobs make shirts and sweaters move differently. If I can see it in that crappy sideways video, the fact that people right in front of her with their hands /around her side at chest level/ can't tell a woman's chest from a man's chest is worrying.
Umm... I guess I'd say the difference here is that the "woman" dressed up in a way that was controversial - looking like a guy and it caused people problems clearly. And at some point if the vast majority of females say "hey, we don't care who comes in a public bathroom while we are in it"... then I'd definitely change my opinion. That does not appear to be the case right now and I think their opinion is just as valid, but since they form the majority, this opinion should be enforced.
And the cops really didn't do anything, all they said was "you have to leave this bathroom". If I went into a women's bathroom and the cops showed up and told me to leave, I would not really be surprised. How about you? So why should we treat this as something more than a case of mistaken identity?
I really don't get why you need to arrest someone being in the bathroom? I wonder who told on her, some whiny bitch...seriously. A handful of times I've seen a man in the woman's bathroom and never have I felt the need to get a police officer involved or do anything.
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This is not a normal scenario though. The lady herself is what changed the "normality" of this scenario, mainly by looking like a man. If she didn't dress up like one and went into the bathroom, the cops wouldn't have been called. I can understand the cops asking for the ID here, how else would they be able to figure out her sex?