Gothamist: 35K Settlement in Caliente Cab Restroom Gender Lawsuit

snowman

Wed, 14 May 2008 20:03:50 -0500

It doesn't say that farmer is trans-gender above, I was going off of this: "The gender discrimination lawsuit was filed in October in State Supreme Court by Farmer and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund."

robingee

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:27:30 -0500

Where does it say she is TG? I thought she was merely a masculine-looking woman. I can't find anything about transgender here.

tortdeformcom

Wed, 14 May 2008 11:27:43 -0500

A commenter said this is much more reasonable than a million bucks for spilled coffee, but the coffee case was actually legit. Big industries like McD don't want us to know that--they'd rather us make fun of an old lady who had to have skin grafts because a corporation wasn't listening to dozens of complaints by customers who were being severely scalded by their too hot coffee. Wow, there are some crazy comments on here. But lawsuits like this are very important for getting companies to treat people fairly. It's easy to say, ooh, I'll take the money, humiliate me! But this woman has gone through almost a year of legal woes just to get the restaurant to change its ways, and the restaurant still never openly admitted fault. Sickening.

zodak

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:44:09 -0500

a lot of people who can't read here. the facts are these: A genetically female individual, who identifies sexually as a lesbian, but nonetheless looks like a man, is ejected from the women's bathroom by a bouncer who perceived the individual to be a man (and presumably a perv) in said women's bathroom. IDs can be faked & it was gay pride so she should have just flashed her va-jj

JRod5417

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:43:28 -0500

You go...girl?

roe

Wed, 14 May 2008 01:46:15 -0500

The settlement is justified in my opinion. It's not about the fact that she was mistaken for a man; it's about the fact that the bouncer behaved in a threatening manner and refused to check her ID. All he had to do was look at the ID and all would have been well. I'm somewhat surprised this happened in the Village. One would think that in a gay community, the businesses would be accustomed to patrons that challenge traditional gender appearances.

catch22

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:43:32 -0500

Adopt a gender-neutral employee dress code? WTF.

snowman

Tue, 13 May 2008 22:52:39 -0500

Is the following correct?... A genetically male individual, who identifies sexually as a woman, but nonetheless looks like a man, is ejected from the women's bathroom by a bouncer who perceived the individual to be a man (and presumably a perv) in said women's bathroom. ...Given how confusing that is, and Khadijah's physical appearance (in the picture at least) $35k seems WAY steep to me.

bestview

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:10:16 -0500

Good for her. The bouncer, whose job it is to look at IDs, should have just looked at the offered ID and trusted it. The "reward" is for punitive reasons, and it's appropriate. A lot more appropriate than $1 million for hot coffee.

EricRoberts

Tue, 13 May 2008 18:37:03 -0500

$35K for an afternoon of embarrassment? Where do I sign up?

sonyactivision

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:48:04 -0500

Oh, and babyhitler, the tranny thing only works at Chuck E Cheese's.

sonyactivision

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:45:23 -0500

That's one ugly dude.

jaja007

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:36:45 -0500

That thing looks like a man. I can't believe this cases wasn't thrown out. babyhitler, you must be one sick dude to want to see women taking a shit on a toilet bowl. I'd rather not have that image in my mind.

babyhitler

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:06:12 -0500

SO you mean I can go into the woman's bathroom and peep all the hot chicks and say it's cause I'm transgender? awesome!