A couple said a security guard at the Liberty Hotel in Boston challenged their use of a bathroom and kicked them out.
  • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world
    119·
    2 months ago

    From the article:

    On Tuesday morning, The Liberty Hotel said it has finished an investigation into the incident and “the security officer is being suspended from their position.” It said all staff are being retrained “on inclusive practices and guest interaction protocols.” The hotel is also making a donation to a local LGBTQ+ organization.

        • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
          62·
          2 months ago

          This shit happened in my state. I am low key tempted to figure out who that is, book a trip to Boston coinciding with that dipshit’s return to service, and aggressively “transvestigate” their nasal cavity with pepper spray before I give their teeth an exclusive meet and greet with a curb.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      63·
      2 months ago

      I live in Boston. My parents have stayed at that hotel before while visiting me. I’m going to tell them to not consider it going forward.

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
        251·
        2 months ago

        The Hotel suspended the asshole guard and is doing a bunch of things to try to make amends and you want to punish them?

        Edit: and they are doing all of his in an America lead by an administration that is actively trying to punish any company or organization that even whispers inclusivity or acknowledges LGBTQ+ people and causes.

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      283·
      2 months ago

      Yup, the terfs in line couldn’t imagine a woman exists who didn’t look like their version of a woman to them since she didn’t follow every trend of what “being a woman” should look like based on social media, most likely.

      Baker was born a woman and identifies as a woman. But, she said she was escorted out of the restroom and then comments were directed at her from other women waiting in line.

      “Someone said, ‘Get him out of here,’ referring to me. ‘He’s a creep,’ also referring to me,” Baker said.

      • ryannathans@aussie.zone
        21·
        2 months ago

        Look at yourselves, making up a story you want to hear and then running wild with that narrative??

        There’s no indication at all that “radical feminists” are involved, and if there was, they’d probably be supporting the poor woman kicked out of the loo

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      I’m already seeing it “Transpeople caused this!” “This wasn’t necessary until THEY stirred the pot!”

      TERF Kinds of fascist apologia

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 months ago

      Even then, though, this shit doesn’t fly here.

      Shouldn’t have happened at all, but at least the hotel fired the shitfucker and tried to make this right, while in other parts of the country this behavior would have been celebrated.

        • theLetterJ@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          13·
          2 months ago

          Also depends on if the security was contracted. If so, then the hotel can ask for a personelle change but isn’t responsible for their employment. The contractor would just relocate the guard if they don’t fire him.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    391·
    2 months ago

    GUARD: SHOW ME YOUR PUSSY!

    GIRL: No, get out of the girl’s bathroom. I’m calling the police.

    GUARD: then… PROVE YOUR GENDER?

    • superkret@feddit.org
      19·
      2 months ago

      It’s the same reason why there’s suddenly a big deal about women’s sports.
      It’s not about protecting women at all, since it now leads to men policing those spaces and basically demanding from women that they drop their panties to prove their sex.

      And that is the actual goal, to invade women’s spaces and bodies.

    • chingadera@lemmy.world
      161·
      2 months ago

      I once drunkenly wandered into the women’s restroom at a bar, took my piss after I couldn’t find the urinals, got all the way to the washing my hands phase, me and a lady who was also minding her business locked eyes while she also washed her hands, we both triple took, then I said “ooops I’m not supposed to be here” then we both just cackled, and went about our business.

      That’s the end of the story, no one was upset, no one was assaulted, no one gave a single fuck and we both had a good laugh.

      • Red_October@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        That’s just it, these pricks who keep throwing a fit about who uses which bathroom are really much more interested in hating transgender people than they are about protecting anyone. You can point out stats about who is actually assaulting who and how it’s happening, and it won’t change a thing, because protection was never the point.

        The cruelty is the point.

    • insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Very location dependent. I’ve no issue with trans women in the women’s bathrooms but I don’t want men in the women’s bathrooms everywhere. Clubs, parties, homes, work office even, but mostly anonymous quiet public bathrooms, no. And it’s about walking in and a man or group of men being in there already, plus being followed in.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    History has shown us that if a man wants to go into a women’s bathroom to harass or assault women, he doesn’t usually get all disguised to do it.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
    15·
    2 months ago

    Texas security guard on a grayhound: ma’am, are you pregnant or a fat guy?

    Guy: Dude, its a bus! Everyone goes in the same toilet when its a bus! Wanna see my pee pee?

  • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    Aww that’s gross. I thought the Liberty Hotel is a fun place. Also…y’know…liberty…

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    143·
    2 months ago

    “The Liberty Hotel is and always will be an ally of the LGBTQ+ community…”

    With allies like that…

  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 months ago

    I hate to say this because I really do love Boston. But it’s a racist shithole that needs to be burned down