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Showing Original Post only (View all)Woman donates hair to cancer patients is mistaken for trans, harassed in restroom [View all]
Stay classy, conservatives...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/woman-who-donated-hair-to-cancer-patients-mistaken-for-transgender-man-and-harassed-in-restroom/
Danbury News Times reports that Toms was accosted by another woman while she was washing her hands in a Walmart bathroom in Danbury, Connecticut. Toms was wearing a baseball hat and she had very short hair because she recently donated her hair to a charity that makes wigs for children with cancer.
She said that she was approached by a complete stranger in the bathroom and was told that Youre disgusting! and You dont belong here! The 22-year-old Toms posted a video on Facebook talking about how the experience opened her eyes to the abuse that transgender people face every day.
After experiencing the discrimination they face firsthand, I cannot fathom the discrimination transgender people must face in a lifetime, she said. Can you imagine going out every day and having people tell you you should not be who you are or that people will not accept you as who you are?
She said that she was approached by a complete stranger in the bathroom and was told that Youre disgusting! and You dont belong here! The 22-year-old Toms posted a video on Facebook talking about how the experience opened her eyes to the abuse that transgender people face every day.
After experiencing the discrimination they face firsthand, I cannot fathom the discrimination transgender people must face in a lifetime, she said. Can you imagine going out every day and having people tell you you should not be who you are or that people will not accept you as who you are?

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Snarkoleptic
May 2016
OP
“Can you imagine going out every day and having people tell you you should not be who you are ...
AlbertCat
May 2016
#8
was married to a woman who lost her hair due if she was attacked i would have killed the attacker
dembotoz
May 2016
#15
And then there was the time a couple of cops shoved a young woman out of the restroom
tblue37
May 2016
#22
My daughter wears her hair in a very short pixie cut. She is a very busy doctor, so
tblue37
May 2016
#23
I was a guard at a school, when it was reported that a man was in the woman's restroom.
happyslug
May 2016
#39