Florida Cops Arrest Transgender Woman for Using Women’s Bathroom
A transgender woman was arrested last month for refusing to leave the women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol. Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old college student, said she acted intentionally to challenge Florida’s antitrans bathroom law. Â
Passed in 2023, the Safety in Private Spaces Act criminalizes an individual for refusing to leave a restroom or changing area assigned to the opposite sex when asked to by a government employee. Currently, 13 states have passed policies relating to transgender bathroom use, but only two states, Florida and Utah, have opted to impose criminal penalties. Rheintgen told the Associated Press that she “wanted people to see the absurdity” of Florida’s transgender bathroom use restrictions under the law.Â
After sending 160 letters to state representatives, the attorney general, and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis asking that she not be arrested for using the restroom corresponding with her gender identity, Rheintgen arrived at the women’s restroom at the House office building in Tallahassee on March 19. Police officers, who had been tipped off to Rheintgen’s plan, were waiting for her.Â
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