You Could Just Move
Jazmina Saavedra, a Congressional candidate in California whose wardrobe appears to consist largely of Trump memorabilia, confronted a trans woman who was using the women's restroom in a Denny's restaurant this week, and posted a video of the encounter on her Facebook.
In the video, Saavedra walks toward the restroom and films the door of a bathroom stall, where she says there's "a man here saying that he's a lady," and "invading [her] privacy" and right as a woman to use the "ladies' room." Saavedra then waits outside the restroom, positioning her camera to face the door.
"That guy violated my right to use the ladies room here, and he's saying he's a lady. Stupid guy," Saavedra says in the video. "This is so stupid - in California, how they let people say... It's a man, saying he's a lady, he's using the ladies' room."
Saavedra continues muttering to herself, waiting outside the closed restroom door, complaining that the trans woman in the restroom has put her "in danger," and that the state of California is "stupid" for allowing people to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
California is a lovely state with simply lovely weather, and I can understand the appeal to live there. The beach! The mountains! The desert! The sunshine! California has it all! But, I don't know, it seems to me that there's a simpler solution for Saavedra than trying to change a policy that allows people to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity: Move!
There are currently no federal or state-wide laws in the country that designate protections for trans people who wish to use the restroom that fits their gender identity, so Saavedra has plenty of choices for a locale that would better suit her specific potty needs.
Saavedra could move to Houston, a large city that has continuously failed to pass non-discrimination policies to protect its incredibly diversepopulation. Or anywhere in Mississippi, the home to the country's most extreme anti-LGBTQ law. OR probably most cities in North Carolina, which was the first state to pass a law restricting which public restrooms trans people can use (the law was later repealed).
Anyway, there are plenty of places in this country that still prohibit trans people from using public restrooms comfortably and safely. Take your pick, Saavedra.
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