Do Not Ticket Transgender People for Using the Restroom!
A transgender woman from Dallas was given a ticket and charged with disorderly conduct for using the women’s restroom.
Paula Witherspoon has been transitioning since 2006 and presents herself as a female. There was no one else in the room, but a woman saw her walking out of the restroom and reported her to the police.
She tried to show a transition letter from her doctor, but the police said they have to go by her license — and as of now, her legal name is still Paul Witherspoon. Paula said it was “humiliating, degrading”.
There are anti-discrimination laws in 16 states and the District of Columbia that protect trans* people from situations such as these, but Texas isn’t one of them. Tell Texas to pass an anti-discrimination law. People should not be ticketed for simply using the bathroom! This is discrimination and it is wrong.
Sign the petition here.
— Brittany
TEXAS TUMBLRS, ASSEMBLE!
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
What happened?
Goddamn.
This is so true, and is a BIG DEAL that is somehow not talked about when douchebag old white dudes are like “blah blah work yr way through college like I did”
I’m so confused about why the media isn’t all over this
(except I’m not confused at all, because having a highly-educated middle class doesn’t serve the interests or needs of companies or the state or the companystate)
word!
Andrej Pejic | Nightline ABC
If anyone is interested, the interview is here: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/guy-doll-man-models-womens-clothes-14524558
It’s amazing how unaware the interviewer is. Some of the questions she asks are just not-so-good. But Andrej handles it with class and brilliance.
