Cops Drag Girl Out of Bathroom For ‘Not Looking Like A Woman’

A video featuring an unidentified young woman being forcibly removed from a women’s bathroom by police officers has gone viral in the wake of North Carolina’s bathroom laws. The confrontation was caught on video back in December, but it resurfaced after being posted by well-known Black Lives Matter activist Tamara McDaniel this week, who was showcasing the discrimination faced by those targeted in the so-called “bathroom laws” of North Carolina and Mississippi While the video never specifies its location, new laws in North Carolina and Mississippi require people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex, opening all kinds of possibilities for new abuses of power that police may now inflict upon transgender Americans and citizens whose clothing may challenge gender norms. The new laws also prevent the states from passing any new anti-discrimination laws for the purpose of protecting members of the LGBT community. In the video, a male police officer can be heard saying “You’re a man” to a woman in baggy clothes who, understandably frustrated, says “I’m a fucking female!” while the videographer and other onlookers repeatedly insist “She’s a girl!” “You have ID?” the officer asks. When she says no, he barks over her protests with “Get out! Get out! Out!” Witnesses can be heard saying “This is so sad” as the officer gets in the woman’s face, still saying “Out!” while pointing a finger right in her face. At this point, the officer and his partner gang up on the woman and briefly push her against the wall before forcing her out the door. The outraged videographer can be heard exclaiming “You’re saying you have to have ID just to go to the bathroom?” Her friends then leave with the woman in a show of solidarity. Despite this video evidence, Republican lawmakers continue to deny that these “bathroom bills” are discriminatory, saying a law which requires people to provide identification just to go to the bathroom is in place to protect people’s “privacy.“