The Hive owner’s comments on transgender people, bathrooms spark a storm LINK ADDED

[Omaha Steve]

Jake Gardner

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/the-hive-owner-s-comments-on-transgender-people-bathrooms-spark/article_ab33239d-3675-5263-bfbb-f9d58f5a7bf6.html

POSTED: THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2016 12:30 AM | UPDATED: 2:00 PM, THU APR 7, 2016.
By Andrew J. Nelson / World-Herald staff writer

The owner of a popular Omaha nightspot started a firestorm on Facebook this week when he suggested transgender women should not use the women’s restroom unless they have had their “appendage” removed and their state identification changed.

The comments by Jake Gardner, co-owner of The Hive, were widely shared. Some attacked them as intolerant, while others supported them.

Gardner said he regrets the appendage part of his statement but stands by what he described as safety concerns in allowing expanded access to the women’s restroom. The Hive is expanding its bathroom setup to include a unisex facility, a step in the works long before Gardner typed his statement into his smartphone.

“I thought I was posting to my friends, and it just went viral,” he said.

FULL story at link.

[snooper2]

1. no link, and this qualifies for news these days? Damn reporters are getting fucking lazy

[Warpy]

2. I've happily shared the women's bathroom with drag queens

who were not transitioning and had absolutely no desire to do so.

They'd have gotten beaten to a pulp in the gents'.

[Skittles]

5. a drag queen taught me how to use eyeliner, in the ladies room

yes INDEED

[gratuitous]

3. Jake: If you don't know what you're talking about

Please avail yourself of the opportunity to shut up more.

The ignorance on this issue is just staggering, and the number of people willing to parade that ignorance boggles the imagination. If you don't know what you're talking about, if you think being transgender is as simple as a declaration of "I feel like a woman (today)," or if you think there is some mass movement of transgenders all champing at the bit to invade your bathroom space, then you're just plain ignorant. There's no nicer way to put it. Ask questions, if you have to. Listen to other people. Learn something, fer crissakes.

[Skittles]

4. "I thought I was posting to my friends"

these assholes want keep their bigotry private