Wait until Rowling sees this : Woman kicked out of bathroom for looking too manly, asked to prove gender by clueless security

Get the Full StoryPeople like J.K. Rowling will often claim that their crusade against the trans community is all in the name of protecting biological women. However, what would they say if the laws they support actually did more harm to these women than good? Well that s exactly what has happened at the Liberty Hotel in Boston. According to CBSnews.com, a lesbian couple claimed that they were confronted in the women s toilets by a security guard who believed that one of them was a biological man. Security then demanded that they show identification to prove their sex. Even after doing so, they were reportedly ordered to leave the hotel. It s just humiliating overall Ansley Baker, who was born a woman and identifies as a woman, and Liz Victor were at a Kentucky Derby party at the hotel earlier this month. The couple claimed that they were in the bathroom when a male security guard entered and started banging on the stall doors. All of a sudden there was banging on the door. I pulled my shorts up. I hadn t even tied them. One of the security guards was there telling me to get out of the bathroom, that I was a man in the women s bathroom. I said, I m a woman.' Kind of ironic that a male guard should enter the women s bathroom to demand a woman prove her sex to him, what a safe space the Liberty Hotel toilets are. Anyways, Baker was then escorted out of the bathroom, where she claims she was subjected to further verbal abuse from women outside the toilets. Someone said, Get him out of here, referring to me. He s a creep, also referring to me. The couple s story has been shared across social media. On TikTok, people expressed their disgust at how Ansley and Liz were treated by hotel staff. One individual wrote, Wait until Rowling sees this and realises the law she helped put in place to protect cis women is actively harming cis women. The Harry Potter author has made her anti-trans sentiments very clear over the past few years. pinknews A lesbian has been kicked out the women s toilets in a posh Boston hotel for being a man , and told to prove her gender . Cisgender woman Ansley Baker was staying at the Liberty Hotel in upmarket Beacon Hill, with her girlfriend, Liz Victor, when the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon 3 May . Both had booked in as part of a party watching the Kentucky Derby, and were using the female toilet when a male security guard began banging on the stall doors, they claimed. One of the security guards was there telling me to get out of the bathroom, telling me I am a man in the women s bathroom. I told him I was a woman, CBS News reported Baker saying. Baker claimed she was removed before she had a chance to finish tying her shorts, which was humiliating , and was accused of not being a woman by others as she was escorted past them as they waited in line to use the toilets. Someone said: Get him out of here he s a creep , referring to me, she said. The security guard then checked their IDs and the situation became heated, resulting in the two women being asked to leave the hotel part of the Marriott Bonvoy rewards programme altogether. In an initial statement issued on Monday 5 May , a spokesperson for the hotel accused the pair of sharing a stall. An incident occurred at the Liberty Hotel on Saturday, where several women alerted security of two adults sharing a bathroom stall, they said. The bathroom was cleared out as two adults in one stall are not permitted. After leaving the bathroom, a member of the couple from the stall put their hands on our security team and it was then that they were removed from the premises. The Liberty has a zero-tolerance policy for any physical altercations on our property. The safety of our guests and staff is our priority, and this event is under investigation. The women deny sharing a stall, with Victor saying: If that s what he thought the issue was, once he opened the stall door, obviously there was only one person in there, so it should ve been case closed. Let her tie up her shorts and go about her day. Following an internal investigation, the hotel said the security guard had been suspended from his role and all staff were being retrained on inclusive practices and guest interaction protocols . A spokesperson said: The Liberty Hotel is, and always will, be an ally of the LGBTQ community and a place where everyone is welcome and celebrated. We will continue to educate and train our team, to ensure that everyone feels safe and accepted within our four walls, and guests who do not show tolerance and acceptance towards others will be removed. The hotel will be making a donation to a local LGBTQ organisation. In 2018, the partner of Jessica Walton, the author of trans-inclusive children s book, such as Introducing Teddy, was aggressively told her to leave a bowling alley by a security guard after she used the women s toilets. In 2021, poet Eloise Stonborough spoke of the number of times she has been questioned when using female facilities, estimating that she has been challenged roughly every one in three visits. More recently, MPs have expressed concern about how last month s ruling by the UK Supreme Court, which deemed that the protected characteristic of s3x in the 2010 Equality Act referred only to biological women and, by consequence that access to single-s3x spaces should be based on biology would affect lesbian women who do not fit the traditional ideals of femininity and womanhood. MP Dawn Butler told the House of Commons that she had witnessed butch lesbian friends being questioned in the women s toilets. Fellow Labour MP and lesbian Kate Osborne said she is often questioned about her gender and was worried that the court verdict would only make it worse. #lesbian #lgbtqia #transgender #toilet #usnews #boston Minimal for news news suspense 1169746 Hiraoka Kotaro While Rowling claims it s all in the name of protecting women, this perfectly demonstrates how encouraging anti-trans rhetoric not only harms a marginalized group who just want the right to exist, but it also can be harmful to cis-women. The Liberty Hotel suspends the security guard After a short investigation, the Liberty Hotel put the guard on suspension and released a statement claiming it is and always will be an ally of the LGBTQ community and a place where everyone is welcome and celebrated. However, some may say it s too little, too late, after Baker and Victor were kicked out of the hotel even after proving to staff which they shouldn t have had to do in the first place that they were biologically female. A previous statement from the hotel claimed that they had received complaints from several women claiming that there were two adults sharing a bathroom stall. The couple denied that they were in the same stall. They also claim that they have neither seen an apology nor a retraction from the hotel regarding their original claims to clarify that Ansley was the only one in the stall.

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