Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)
Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)
“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.
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the deputies were called by a store employee who allegedly assumed she was a transgender woman.
It's Walmart to blame here, not so much the police. You guys need to boycott Walmart or whatever. Are things so bad that it's literally illegal to be trans now that Walmart calls the police on you?
This is crazy apologia. For the cops to be blameless here they would have to have told the employee calling them to fuck off and ignored the call.
I never wrote they're blameless.
When she finally exited the stall, she said she lifted her shirt to prove she was not a man, expecting the ordeal to end. Instead, she said one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she “looked like a man.”
The police are equally if not more deserving of blame for continually harassing this woman even after forcing her to expose herself to them.
When she finally exited the stall, she said she lifted her shirt to prove she was not a man, expecting the ordeal to end.
The police are equally if not more deserving of blame for continually harassing this woman even after forcing her to expose herself to them.
From the way it's written, she did it voluntarily expecting it to then end. It does not state the police officers asked / required her to do so. If you invite a bunch of idiots in, they're going to behave like idiots. The impetus was the Walmart employee
The impetus was the Walmart employee
no, the impetus was conservative rhetoric. conservatives made this whole fucking bullshit issue out of nothing, it's neither biologically nor sociologically consistent and simply weaponized hate turned into conservative legislation to again shit on anyone who is not cis/het/white.
never forget, walmart didn't invent this bullshi, cops didn't even invent this bullshit, conservatives invented this bullshit.
I'm not American but you're hiding from a very ugly truth. The conservatives didn't invent it. There was clearly a sizeable group of the population who felt this way but were previously oppressed from their opinions. What you're seeing is, I guess, "free speech"? You may not like it, but that's the price of "free speech".
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the first amendment.
"Free speech" in the context of the US Constitution means that one is free to criticize the government without fear of retaliation (which is currently being dismantled). "Free speech" does not mean that one gets to say anything they want without consequence.
From the way it's written, she did it voluntarily expecting it to then end.
This doesn't change the fact they cornered her in a women's bathroom and made her feel like she needed to expose herself to them in order to stay safe. We have no way of knowing what they might have done to her if she hadn't.
Walmart the Loblaws of America treating their customers like dirt.