Hyperbole Alert
A New York landlord’s decision not to allow transgendered visitors to use whichever bathroom they choose in his building is equivalent to forcing African-Americans to use separate bathrooms before the 1960s, according to 365gay.com.
James Esseks, litigation director of the ACLU's AIDS Project, says bathrooms are the new “battlegrounds” in the fight for civil rights.
"The landlord's decision to exclude transgender people from the bathrooms and common areas was just as wrong today as it was 50 years ago when business owners in the South tried to force African Americans to use separate bathrooms."
The statement comes in the case of a NYC landlord who forced an AIDS clinic to move out of his building because other tenants complained that transgendered people visiting the clinic were using the “wrong” restrooms.
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