https://archive.li/T9Jhl
"Fifteen-year-old John Gallinaro is so traumatized he can’t sleep at night.
He’s afraid to use the bathroom at home by himself. His mom says he often
expresses fear of Nicole Nicolet, a Cinemark cinema manager in Hazlet, New
Jersey who recently “accused” John of being transgender. She called the police
on him and his mom after ordering them out of the theater where they had been
enjoying the Disney movie Elemental.
Their crime?
John’s mom, Christine Gallinaro, took him into the women’s room to help him.
“This is not a transgender bathroom!” Nicolet reportedly yelled in the crowded
lobby shortly after she had security guards surround the mother and son.
Eventually, police arrived and helped eject the pair from the premises.
“What is this?” I asked myself last week after reading a news story. “Common
narrative? Public fed up with trans people? Sad, entrenched transphobia
targeting a queer kid?”
Actually, no. Zero trans people appear in this story.
Our two main characters are just a devoted mother and her nonverbal,
developmentally delayed child who loves movies but can’t use public restrooms
without help."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
