Leeds University Student Assaulted In Restroom

[Carolyn Marie]

So much for universities being places of acceptance and understanding.

http://www.leedsstudent.org/2013-02-08/ls1/ls1-news/transgender-student-shoved-out-of-union-toilets

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Mia J]

Sounds like grounds for an assault charge to me.

But I also think that unless you are presenting as a female she should have used the male bathroom.

Mia

[Guest Kelly-087]

I know it sucks for that student, but all those girls saw was a 'guy' walking into the girls bathroom. I don't entirely blame them for the response.

I don't think any sort of files should be filed either way.

[Carolyn Marie]

I know it sucks for that student, but all those girls saw was a 'guy' walking into the girls bathroom. I don't entirely blame them for the response.

I didn't notice anything in the article indicating how she was dressed, only that she had not completed her transition yet. If she is in the awkward "in-between" stage, she is still entitled to use the women's restroom. There is a danger for someone who might appear to be female using the men's restroom, but certainly no danger to other women if she went into the women's restroom.

Whatever the aggressors might have thought or felt about the situation, there is absolutely no justification for them to lay hands on the transwoman.

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Mia J]

From the jest of some of the article I thought she might be dressed in guy mode.

But looking at her facebook page I don't think the other students had any right to bully her.

Mia

[Guest Kelly-087]

I know it sucks for that student, but all those girls saw was a 'guy' walking into the girls bathroom. I don't entirely blame them for the response.

I didn't notice anything in the article indicating how she was dressed, only that she had not completed her transition yet. If she is in the awkward "in-between" stage, she is still entitled to use the women's restroom. There is a danger for someone who might appear to be female using the men's restroom, but certainly no danger to other women if she went into the women's restroom.

Whatever the aggressors might have thought or felt about the situation, there is absolutely no justification for them to lay hands on the transwoman.

Carolyn Marie

Alexis added: “It’s wrong for a natural-born girl to insult a trans girl, especially one who prefers to dress more masculine, simply because she likes to. We’re doing the best we can – you’re lucky to have been born that way, and we can dress however we please, just like you.”

It doesn't indicate EXACTLY what she was wearing, but it does say to me she was wearing more male-type clothing. Nothing wrong with that but I do understand the girls misgendering her and getting concerned about her presence in the restroom if she was.

[Guest Wendy F]

What's with people and restrooms? I can kind of understand locker rooms or something but a restroom is where you go to release by-products from your body, and nothing more. You go into private stalls, so no one sees you anyway. Does it really matter what you look like?

[Guest Kelly-087]

What's with people and restrooms? I can kind of understand locker rooms or something but a restroom is where you go to release by-products from your body, and nothing more. You go into private stalls, so no one sees you anyway. Does it really matter what you look like?

Always wondered that myself.

There's apparently concern, that transgender women are just men in dresses looking to perv and assault women in the bathroom. Of course of the 98% I've seen concerned about this were CIS Men.

It's not a really logical belief either since no predator thats going to attack a woman like that is going to bother drawing attention to themselves by dressing in drag.