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“I’m Born Female”: Bearded Trans Man Forced To Explain Himself After Woman Confronts Him
A woman confronted a trans individual inside the women’s restroom at a Barnes & Noble bookstore, saying she felt “uncomfortable.”
The woman claimed her “rights were violated” and questioned another shopper who intervened in support of the trans person.
The outraged woman, who goes by @americanrevivalgirl on TikTok, recorded the unidentified person, who was wearing a pink dress with kitten ears and had facial hair.
Highlights
- A woman recorded and confronted a trans man in a women’s restroom at Barnes & Noble.
- The shopper explained that he was born female but later transitioned to live as a man.
- The woman then went on a rant in her car, claiming the shopper was a danger to young girls.
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A woman confronted a trans man in a women’s restroom at a Barnes & Noble
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“I’m a trans male,” he told her, meaning he was born biologically female and later transitioned to become a man.
The woman responded that it made her “very uncomfortable” to see “a male in the girl’s bathroom,” to which he replied, “I mean, I’m born female.”
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Another woman then intervened, using her hand to try to block the camera of the woman filming the interaction. She was later seen rubbing the man’s shoulders as a gesture of support.
“No, it’s not okay. There are little girls in there. I have first amendment rights,” @americanrevivalgirl fumed.
She later went to her car to address the incident, telling her followers she felt unsafe after the trans man entered the bathroom.
The shopper clarified that he was born female but now identifies as a man
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“I came out of the stall and this dude’s in there putting on his lipstick. I got scared,” she said. “My heart sank.”
She added, “I still don’t know to this day. Is that a chick? A dude? I don’t even know.”
@americanrevivalgirl stated that she had “nothing against” the trans community, but that the man made her feel “nervous,” reiterating that little girls shouldn’t be left alone in the bathroom.
Still, she acknowledged that the man likely went to the bathroom corresponding to his gender assigned at birth because it could be dangerous for him to use the men’s restroom, where he might face discrimination.
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“But what’s more concerning about this video is this woman, who came not to my rescue—me, the woman whose rights were violated in my own bathroom—but she came to his rescue.
“We need to do something about this bathroom situation. It’s not okay. I’m an adult. I can handle it. But little girls…that’s scary stuff,” she concluded.
According to her TikTok profile, the woman resides in Virginia and previously worked for the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The woman later said she felt “scared” by seeing the man in the women’s bathroom
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The video, posted on Wednesday (November 12), has received over 3 million views on social media, with hundreds of users expressing support for the woman and leaving transphobic comments.
“Thank you for speaking up,” one person commented.
“Why should women have to deal with this?” another asked.
A separate user said people should “cancel” Barnes & Noble.
“Of course, some woke Karen rushed to defend the weirdo,” one user wrote, to which another replied, “There’s always that one Karen!”
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Some users were confused as to why the trans man had facial hair despite being born biologically female. Some trans men choose to undergo masculinizing hormone therapy to develop physical changes in the body that are caused by male hormones during puberty.
This therapy, also known as gender-affirming hormone therapy, involves taking the male hormone testosterone, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The clinic notes that after beginning masculinizing hormone therapy, trans men typically experience certain changes, including a deeper voice, their menstruation stopping, redistribution of body fat, and the growth of facial and body hair.
Another shopper intervened to defend the trans man and attempted to block the woman’s camera
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Many others defended the man, noting that children should always go to the bathroom accompanied by a trusted adult, regardless of whether there are trans individuals inside or not.
“You are so focused on trans people, yet any parent who sends their daughter or son to the restroom alone is a terrible parent. Anyone can be in the restroom, and a woman can also m*lest or k*dnap a girl or a boy,” someone wrote.
“Just to be clear — this person was born a female. So they’re using the proper bathroom according to all of you guys. In fact most of you support legislation that would force this person to use only the women’s bathroom,” penned another user.
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“This person went to the bathroom to relieve themselves. Like every other person who goes to a restroom. They did not come to recruit you or bother you. YALL be the problem,” added another supporter.
The topic of trans people’s access to gendered bathrooms continues to divide public opinion. Last week, a singer named Tish Hyman made headlines after confronting Alexis Black, a trans woman, in a Los Angeles Gold’s Gym.
Tish recorded Alexis, accusing her of staring at her inappropriately while she was changing.
The 42-year-old Bronx native said she felt “violated” after the encounter.
Despite claiming to have “nothing against” transgender people, she argued that the situation posed risks for young girls
@americanrevivalgirl Is this a man in the women’s bathroom? This happened at Barnes and Noble in Virginia Beach. How would you or your daughter have felt? More importantly would this woman who “came to the rescue” of this dude have come to the rescue of me or of him if I had been a little girl? @gaysagainstgroomers @libsoftiktokofficial @barnesandnoble #womensrights#protectourgirls♬ original sound – americanrevivalgirl
“Today I was nak*d in the locker room. I turn around, and there’s a man there in boy clothes, lip gloss, standing there looking at me. I’m b*tt nak*d,” she said in a now-viral video.
Tish’s argument with Alexis, who said she was registered as a female with the gym, reportedly resulted in both of their memberships getting revoked.
The viral video reignited discussions about trans individuals’ access to gendered restrooms
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Asri 3 weeks ago
If only restrooms had these little locked boxes you could go into to protect your modesty? It's odd how the pearl clutchers never see concerned about trans men going into male bathrooms.
CP 3 weeks ago (edited)
I can never get an answer for those people about trans men. There are so many trans people that you wouldn't know were trans unless they told you. The only time these bathroom problems make the news is when the trans person doesn't fit the traditional looks for that gender. They have no awareness that it happens all the time without incident. Like I keep saying, all these stories have one thing in common, the trans person being attacked for existing. Yet trans people are the problem? Make that make sense.
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Jenny Woolard 3 weeks ago
Since when has a door ever stopped a predator? If someone is going to do something illegal, I don't think a bathroom door will stop them. Leave trans people alone and focus on people actually committing the crimes.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 3 weeks ago
you think evil cares about a lock? (everybody loves raymond ref)
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Lukas (he/him, it/its) 3 weeks ago
This is why I already don't like using the bathroom in public. I'm a trans man who is entirely pretransition. I don't pass as male at all, so nobody questions me for using the female bathrooms for now when I absolutley must- but what about when I eventually start hormones? If I get facial hair before I'm able to get top surgery? Which bathroom am I supposed to use then? The womens, with facial hair? The mens, with breasts? I hope and pray there's a gender neutral one, because it doesn't seem safe for trans people to use either bathroom if they don't 100% pass as one gender or the other, and heaven forbid you're trans but don't conform to the outdated ideals of gendered clothing.
Austzn 3 weeks ago (edited)
Someone doesn't understand their basic rights, "No, it’s not okay. There are little girls in there. I have first amendment rights,”. What is with these people acting like these restrooms are their personal property to control? Don't feel comfortable using any facility...anyone forcing them to use it? I say convert them all to single occupancy units.
Amused panda 3 weeks ago
Single occupancy toilet facilities can require more footprint and financial outlay than cubicles. After all, from a financial point of view, with cubicles there may be less handwash basins than toilet stalls, and less hand driers than basins. Add to that, with cubicles the next user can enter whilst the previous user is washing their hands. If you convert the facilities as you've suggested, not only will there be less facilities provided, but it will take longer for each user, increasing the queues which can unfortunately be commonplace anyway.
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Ace 3 weeks ago
All a bit Heads you win, tails you lose. Born a woman, still got all the female bits, still dressed in most-definitely-feminine attire, but undergoing hormone therapy and now has a beard, so what, you say they're now a man and should use the mens toilets? In which case you'd have to accept a trans women using the female ones, which I kinda doubt this sort of person would be happy with. Stupid bigoted cow.
UKGrandad 3 weeks ago
"Heads you win, tails you lose" is how a coin toss is supposed to work. The situation now is women either not knowing if the male-looking people in their spaces are trans men or predatory men, or if the male-looking people in their spaces are predatory men or trans women (who can still be predatory because they're men). It's 'heads, women lose, tails, women lose'.
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Deborah 3 weeks ago
Very sad to read this but but not expected as there are so many people who are scared of what they don’t understand. No empathy towards others and their situation. The human race is in decline as we see governing bodies promote ignorance, hate, racism and fear. It’s how they control the population. Unfortunately it will be along time before we see changes. Trans people are people they deserve to feel safe and whether it means putting in unassigned toilets as one solution, there will always be that one person who is offended. Karen get yourself an education and grow some brain cells.
Nova Rook 3 weeks ago
Here is a maga spokesperson who a****d a child - Le’Veon Bell, former NFL player who endorsed Trump was ordered to pay $25 million (jury award) to a woman (a relative) whom he and his brother s******y a****d since she was 6 or 7 years old.
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Brian Norman 3 weeks ago
People can be whatever they want. When you're a biological female transitioning into a man wearing girlie clothing with cat ears, expect people to be confused. I think ambiguity has become a social game and not everyone wants to play.
Devin Schmitt 3 weeks ago
Which part of the First Amendment does she think is being violated by the trans person using the restroom? First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Grumpy old man 14 hours ago
Due Process/Privacy clause which was used to sanctify Roe
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Sarah Pryde 3 weeks ago
Ill never fully understand this f*cking obsession some people have over what people have between their legs and what bathroom they use.....most public bathrooms have STALLS so most folks have some privacy....
UKGrandad 3 weeks ago
Maybe because what's between the legs is what men use to rápe women and girls, so the people with those bits between the legs don't get to be in women's and girls' spaces. Similarly, it is the physically stronger male bodies that commit the bulk of violent assaúlts on women and girls, so male bodies have no place in women's and girls' spaces. It really isn't that complicated when you give it a moment's thought: if you are male, stay out of female spaces.
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meeeeeeeeeeee 3 weeks ago
Would these people ever f**k off? If you're so worried about little girls in bathrooms, then how about you don't take videos in the f*****g bathroom? Perhaps the plan is to continue filming in bathrooms in the hopes that a child comes in so they can take videos of them. I'm much more wary of some t**t filming inside toilets than anything else. She needs her phone took off her.
UKGrandad 3 weeks ago
And of course you're including in that all the female-identifying men who take selfies in public toilets and changing rooms intended for women and girls, then post them on social media to further taunt the women and girls who want their safe spaces back.
Load More Replies... Amused panda 3 weeks ago
Most the time, the only unisex toilet spaces are the disabled. Yet, so often despite signage reminding people about invisible disabilities, users of those facilities can be harassed over their perceived lack of any 'right'/'entitlement' to use those spaces. If the only 'safe' space, where a MTF or FTM individual can avoid harassment whilst they use the facilities, is a disabled toilet, then odds are they'll still be harassed because they don't look disabled.
Beth Wheeler 3 weeks ago
If she wants to be a man so bad why is she dressed like a 5 year old and wearing makeup?
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 3 weeks ago
Why do you care how they dress themselves? How does it affect you in any way, shape or form?
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Grumpy old man 15 hours ago
The only solution is single seat non gendered restrooms like the ones in your house. ACC Rio Grande campus is the former Austin high school built during Segregation. There are twice as many water fountains and restrooms as needed. The building was retrofitted again, during covid.
Grumpy old man 8 hours ago
Ted Cruz is also a Rafie. Maybe adopt a screen name so you dont get confused for him
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Annett Nyrud 2 weeks ago
I think Karen looks very male... Big and strong, not petite and cute... She might be a danger towards smaller persons...
Jess Barbosa 3 weeks ago
maybe there should be a separate bathroom for bigots, pearl-clutchers and overall a******s
Marno C. 3 weeks ago
I really, really, really don't buy the whole, "I don't have a problem with trans people, but...." excuse. No, you do have a problem with people being trans. We see you having a problem. The 'but' gives it away. Just own it. Same goes when people say, "I don't have a problem with women/men/gay people/black people/ Jewish people/ Muslims/etc., BUT....""
UKGrandad 3 weeks ago
Having a problem with an ideology is not the same thing as having a problem with the people who follow it. 'I don't have a problem with trans people' AND 'I have many problems with gender ideology' can both be true.
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Lisa B 3 weeks ago
I guess I don't understand transition female to male but still wearing extremely girly clothing? Most FtM dress more masculine to try to "pass" (for lack of more appropriate word?).
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 3 weeks ago
Clothes don't have gender and there are plenty of cis men who like to wear dresses! Many trans men do try to pass, but others choose to wear dresses and makeup because gender isn't black and white like people try to pretend it is.
Load More Replies... CP 3 weeks ago
People hate changes. That is all this. I have yet to hear an actually argument against trans people using the facilities they want. They talk about danger when most of it seems to happen to trans people. Can any of you opposed actually explain the problem? This argument seems the exact same as the one against gay people 20 years ago. Feelings you can't substantiate.
JB 3 weeks ago
There’s actual legislation being implemented that forces transgender people into a bathroom corresponding to their biological séx. I’m not opposed to transgender women in *my* spaces as a bio woman but I kinda do have issues with a government forcing transgender men into them. All you’ve done is expose your ignorance of what is actually happening.
Load More Replies... Lukas (he/him, it/its) 3 weeks ago
As I responded to you earlier, clothes do not equal identity and clothes do not have gender. People of any gender and identity are allowed to wear dresses if that is what they want to wear and feel comfortable and confident in.
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Asri 3 weeks ago
If only restrooms had these little locked boxes you could go into to protect your modesty? It's odd how the pearl clutchers never see concerned about trans men going into male bathrooms.
CP 3 weeks ago (edited)
I can never get an answer for those people about trans men. There are so many trans people that you wouldn't know were trans unless they told you. The only time these bathroom problems make the news is when the trans person doesn't fit the traditional looks for that gender. They have no awareness that it happens all the time without incident. Like I keep saying, all these stories have one thing in common, the trans person being attacked for existing. Yet trans people are the problem? Make that make sense.
Load More Replies... Jenny Woolard 3 weeks ago
Since when has a door ever stopped a predator? If someone is going to do something illegal, I don't think a bathroom door will stop them. Leave trans people alone and focus on people actually committing the crimes.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 3 weeks ago
you think evil cares about a lock? (everybody loves raymond ref)
Load More Replies... Lukas (he/him, it/its) 3 weeks ago
This is why I already don't like using the bathroom in public. I'm a trans man who is entirely pretransition. I don't pass as male at all, so nobody questions me for using the female bathrooms for now when I absolutley must- but what about when I eventually start hormones? If I get facial hair before I'm able to get top surgery? Which bathroom am I supposed to use then? The womens, with facial hair? The mens, with breasts? I hope and pray there's a gender neutral one, because it doesn't seem safe for trans people to use either bathroom if they don't 100% pass as one gender or the other, and heaven forbid you're trans but don't conform to the outdated ideals of gendered clothing.
Austzn 3 weeks ago (edited)
Someone doesn't understand their basic rights, "No, it’s not okay. There are little girls in there. I have first amendment rights,”. What is with these people acting like these restrooms are their personal property to control? Don't feel comfortable using any facility...anyone forcing them to use it? I say convert them all to single occupancy units.
Amused panda 3 weeks ago
Single occupancy toilet facilities can require more footprint and financial outlay than cubicles. After all, from a financial point of view, with cubicles there may be less handwash basins than toilet stalls, and less hand driers than basins. Add to that, with cubicles the next user can enter whilst the previous user is washing their hands. If you convert the facilities as you've suggested, not only will there be less facilities provided, but it will take longer for each user, increasing the queues which can unfortunately be commonplace anyway.
Load More Replies... Ace 3 weeks ago
All a bit Heads you win, tails you lose. Born a woman, still got all the female bits, still dressed in most-definitely-feminine attire, but undergoing hormone therapy and now has a beard, so what, you say they're now a man and should use the mens toilets? In which case you'd have to accept a trans women using the female ones, which I kinda doubt this sort of person would be happy with. Stupid bigoted cow.
UKGrandad 3 weeks ago
"Heads you win, tails you lose" is how a coin toss is supposed to work. The situation now is women either not knowing if the male-looking people in their spaces are trans men or predatory men, or if the male-looking people in their spaces are predatory men or trans women (who can still be predatory because they're men). It's 'heads, women lose, tails, women lose'.
Load More Replies... Deborah 3 weeks ago
Very sad to read this but but not expected as there are so many people who are scared of what they don’t understand. No empathy towards others and their situation. The human race is in decline as we see governing bodies promote ignorance, hate, racism and fear. It’s how they control the population. Unfortunately it will be along time before we see changes. Trans people are people they deserve to feel safe and whether it means putting in unassigned toilets as one solution, there will always be that one person who is offended. Karen get yourself an education and grow some brain cells.
Nova Rook 3 weeks ago
Here is a maga spokesperson who a****d a child - Le’Veon Bell, former NFL player who endorsed Trump was ordered to pay $25 million (jury award) to a woman (a relative) whom he and his brother s******y a****d since she was 6 or 7 years old.
Load More Replies... Brian Norman 3 weeks ago
People can be whatever they want. When you're a biological female transitioning into a man wearing girlie clothing with cat ears, expect people to be confused. I think ambiguity has become a social game and not everyone wants to play.
Devin Schmitt 3 weeks ago
Which part of the First Amendment does she think is being violated by the trans person using the restroom? First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Grumpy old man 14 hours ago
Due Process/Privacy clause which was used to sanctify Roe
Load More Replies... Sarah Pryde 3 weeks ago
Ill never fully understand this f*cking obsession some people have over what people have between their legs and what bathroom they use.....most public bathrooms have STALLS so most folks have some privacy....
UKGrandad 3 weeks ago
Maybe because what's between the legs is what men use to rápe women and girls, so the people with those bits between the legs don't get to be in women's and girls' spaces. Similarly, it is the physically stronger male bodies that commit the bulk of violent assaúlts on women and girls, so male bodies have no place in women's and girls' spaces. It really isn't that complicated when you give it a moment's thought: if you are male, stay out of female spaces.
Load More Replies... meeeeeeeeeeee 3 weeks ago
Would these people ever f**k off? If you're so worried about little girls in bathrooms, then how about you don't take videos in the f*****g bathroom? Perhaps the plan is to continue filming in bathrooms in the hopes that a child comes in so they can take videos of them. I'm much more wary of some t**t filming inside toilets than anything else. She needs her phone took off her.
UKGrandad 3 weeks ago
And of course you're including in that all the female-identifying men who take selfies in public toilets and changing rooms intended for women and girls, then post them on social media to further taunt the women and girls who want their safe spaces back.
Load More Replies... Amused panda 3 weeks ago
Most the time, the only unisex toilet spaces are the disabled. Yet, so often despite signage reminding people about invisible disabilities, users of those facilities can be harassed over their perceived lack of any 'right'/'entitlement' to use those spaces. If the only 'safe' space, where a MTF or FTM individual can avoid harassment whilst they use the facilities, is a disabled toilet, then odds are they'll still be harassed because they don't look disabled.
Beth Wheeler 3 weeks ago
If she wants to be a man so bad why is she dressed like a 5 year old and wearing makeup?
TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 3 weeks ago
Why do you care how they dress themselves? How does it affect you in any way, shape or form?
Load More Replies... Grumpy old man 15 hours ago
The only solution is single seat non gendered restrooms like the ones in your house. ACC Rio Grande campus is the former Austin high school built during Segregation. There are twice as many water fountains and restrooms as needed. The building was retrofitted again, during covid.
Grumpy old man 8 hours ago
Ted Cruz is also a Rafie. Maybe adopt a screen name so you dont get confused for him
Load More Replies... Annett Nyrud 2 weeks ago
I think Karen looks very male... Big and strong, not petite and cute... She might be a danger towards smaller persons...
Jess Barbosa 3 weeks ago
maybe there should be a separate bathroom for bigots, pearl-clutchers and overall a******s
Marno C. 3 weeks ago
I really, really, really don't buy the whole, "I don't have a problem with trans people, but...." excuse. No, you do have a problem with people being trans. We see you having a problem. The 'but' gives it away. Just own it. Same goes when people say, "I don't have a problem with women/men/gay people/black people/ Jewish people/ Muslims/etc., BUT....""
UKGrandad 3 weeks ago
Having a problem with an ideology is not the same thing as having a problem with the people who follow it. 'I don't have a problem with trans people' AND 'I have many problems with gender ideology' can both be true.
Load More Replies... Lisa B 3 weeks ago
I guess I don't understand transition female to male but still wearing extremely girly clothing? Most FtM dress more masculine to try to "pass" (for lack of more appropriate word?).
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 3 weeks ago
Clothes don't have gender and there are plenty of cis men who like to wear dresses! Many trans men do try to pass, but others choose to wear dresses and makeup because gender isn't black and white like people try to pretend it is.
Load More Replies... CP 3 weeks ago
People hate changes. That is all this. I have yet to hear an actually argument against trans people using the facilities they want. They talk about danger when most of it seems to happen to trans people. Can any of you opposed actually explain the problem? This argument seems the exact same as the one against gay people 20 years ago. Feelings you can't substantiate.
JB 3 weeks ago
There’s actual legislation being implemented that forces transgender people into a bathroom corresponding to their biological séx. I’m not opposed to transgender women in *my* spaces as a bio woman but I kinda do have issues with a government forcing transgender men into them. All you’ve done is expose your ignorance of what is actually happening.
Load More Replies... Lukas (he/him, it/its) 3 weeks ago
As I responded to you earlier, clothes do not equal identity and clothes do not have gender. People of any gender and identity are allowed to wear dresses if that is what they want to wear and feel comfortable and confident in.
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