Unsafe Bathrooms

A trans woman just got sexually assaulted in a bathroom in of all places the Stonewall Inn

Transgender Woman Allegedly Raped in Stonewall Inn Bathroom
A trans woman was allegedly raped at the Stonewall Inn, the iconic site of LGBT liberation.
The Advocate
By Cleis Abeni
March 28, 2016

A 25-year-old transgender woman says she was raped Saturday inside a single-occupancy unisex bathroom at the Stonewall Inn bar on Christopher Street in New York City, reports Gothamist.

The New York City Police Department has not identified the woman. The woman told police that around 11:40 p.m., a man “came into the bathroom claiming he only needed to wash his hands, then proceeded to grope and rape her,” according to Gothamist.

The man then “fled the scene” and the victim also left the bar and then returned to phone the police, the site reports. The victim was taken to Lenox Hospital for treatment. Police have made no arrests, but are “looking for a man in his 30s,” says Gothamist.
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Yet, as this one incident of alleged rape suggests — and several other incidents of violence against transgender individuals make clear — transgender people face grave danger when accessing public accommodations and gender-variant people are 3.7 times more likely to face violence than cisgender (nontrans) people.

This is a way more likely incident of violence then a trans woman attacking someone in a bathroom. Especially now that the conservatives have stirred up hatred against us and they are trying to put a bounty on our heads.

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This afternoon I am at the Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective where I help out on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for three hours and then this evening I go over to a neighbor’s house to be interviewed by the daughter for a term paper. You can guess what the paper is on.