James Finn
Jan 9, 2025

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I'm remembering an article I wrote a couple years ago about a young cisgender (and straight for what it matters) woman with a short hairstyle who was confronted in a Las Vegas casino women's room because a cisgender woman thought she shouldn't be there.

"It's a boy!" she shouted, as she physically threatened the much smaller woman and demanded to see her genitals.

It's worth thinking about that she was demanding the woman expose herself to her while she presumed the woman was a minor child.

It's also worth thinking about that casino security were at first very hostile to the young woman, who had simply stepped into the casino with her boyfriend so they could both use the facilities.

Nobody expected the genitals police, and she never imagined that she would have to justify herself to an angry woman, let alone to armed guards.

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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