A Minnesota teenager filed a charge of discrimination against a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant Tuesday, alleging a server followed her into the women’s restroom and demanded she “prove” she was a girl.
When she went to the restroom, a server followed her inside and banged on the stall door while saying: “This is a women’s restroom.
The man needs to get out of here,” according to Gender Justice, a Minnesota gender-equality organization that filed the charge on Mudra’s behalf.
Gerika Mudra, 18, says she was harassed by a server who accused her of being a boy in the girls' bathroom.
Mudra said she felt she had to prove to the server that she is a woman, so she unzipped her hoodie to show she has breasts.
“This kind of gender policing is, unfortunately, nothing new,” Megan Peterson, executive director at Gender Justice, said in a statement.
Twenty-one states don’t have explicit protections from discrimination based on gender identity in public accommodations. »
