CW transphobia
Not sure if you've heard about the recent arrest of Luca Strobel, a trans man, for using women's washroom (after asking permission, because the men's had only urinals). I feel like it's a perfect example of malgendering and transandrophobia. He's arrested for being a man in a woman's washroom, and at the same time, the arresting officer calls him a "little girl."
www. erininthemorning. com/p/trans-man-detained-after-using-womens
Trans Man Detained After Using Women’s Restroom in South Carolina
After a lengthy drive to the bar, Strobel said he stepped inside to use the men’s room. However, there were no stalls—only urinals, rendering it inaccessible to him as a trans man.
At first, an employee warned both Strobel and his friend against entering the bathroom of the “opposite” sex, but after a brief back-and-forth, Strobel said he believed he had permission to do so. He also said he and Frady were the only two people in the restroom, which Frady confirmed to Erin in the Morning.
That’s when a man who said he was the bar owner burst into the women’s room, peering over the stall to look at Strobel as he used the restroom.
“They’re looking over the top of the stall at me without my clothes on,” Strobel said in the video. “They can fully see me naked other than me having my shirt on, and they just start screaming that there’s ‘a man’ in here.”
He said the owner and employee ejected him and his friend from the bar—grabbing and pushing them out as they reportedly called Strobel anti-trans slurs. The police were waiting at the door, Strobel said.
The officer cuffed him “so tight that I can’t even feel my fingers,” Strobel said. “I still have a bruise on my knuckle.” Meanwhile, his arresting officer allegedly kept calling him a “little girl.”
“We didn’t get booked, but we did get cuffed, and when we got to the station, we were asking a bunch of questions that they refused to answer,” Strobel said. “They just kept saying, ‘Take it up in court, take it up in court, take it up in court.’” […]
Strobel says he believes the bar staff knew he was trans because his shirt revealed his top surgery scars. Nonetheless, he said he refuses to “go stealth,” or hide his trans identity, because he believes that trans visibility in the South is important.Yeah this is literally a perfect example. There was no “misdirected” violence here, they knew he was a trans man and still thought his presence in the women’s bathroom was a male violation, WHILE ALSO infantilizing and feminizing him.
THIS is what can happen when trans men use the women’s bathroom in a transphobic place. The presence of a trans guy in the women’s bathroom is not, in fact, so shocking and incapable of being conceive that transphobes’ brains simply shut down and can’t do anything—they just direct their transphobia… at the trans man! Shocking! Who could’ve forseen such an outcome!
Luca now raising funds for him to relocate to somewhere safer, so if y'all can you should send some money his way.
as a side note: as this shows, transmascs being seen as “little girls” does not always mean being seen as “innocent” or “uwu” little girls. “Little girls” in this country are frequently treated with incredible disrespect and violence (especially when they aren’t white). people need to get it in their brains that being infantilized & feminized is not always a passive experience of being seen as “too soft.” you can be treated like a little girl while you are getting violently arrested by cops who hate you.