Get Out you look like a man!
Khadijah Farmer who describes herself as not the most feminine looking was asked to leave a woman’s restroom in the West Village NYC by a bouncer because she looked too much like a man. Ms. Farmer showed the bouncer her state issues ID which identified her as a woman but the bouncer insisted she get out. The group of people she was with were also asked to leave the restaurant Caliente Cab Company.
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund filed suit in October in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan against the restaurant asserting that Ms. Farmer was a victim of gender discrimination. The Legal Defense and Education Fund took up the suit because it touched upon many issues that transgender people commonly face and could set in the Fund’s words a “very interesting legal precedent. According to Michael D. Silverman the executive director of the defense fund this case, “really straddled the line of gender expression.” Caliente Cab Restaurant decided to negotiate and a settlement was signed last Friday. Ms Farmer will receive $35,000 and the restaurant also agreed to pay the Fund $15,000. The restaurant also must put in place workplace practices adding gender identity and expression to its corporate non-discrimination policy; to adopt a gender neutral dress code for its employees; and to amend its employee handbook to sate, “persons patronizing or employed at Caliente have the right to use the bathroom facilities consistent with their gender identity and expression.”
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