MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. — One transgender woman found herself in quite the predicament while traveling through North Carolina.
Sarah McBride, 25, was visiting North Carolina in her role as the communications manager for LGBT Progress at American Progress to elevate the voices of trans people who had been impacted by the law when she had to use the bathroom, BuzzFeed reported.
McBride said after her meeting Thursday morning at the Mecklenburg Government Center and after days of hearing the stories of transgender people in North Carolina, McBride said that she decided to take action to challenge the law.
“Here I am using a women’s restroom in North Carolina that I’m technically barred from being in,” she writes in a photo caption directly from the women’s restroom at the government center.
“They say accepting me as the person I have fought my life to be seen as reflects the downfall of a once great nation,” she writes.
She lists some of the terms that underscore the mounting hysteria around transgender women who use the women’s restroom — “pervert,” “man dressed as a woman,” a “threat” to children, “confused,” and “dangerous.”
“I’m just a person,” she writes. “We are all just people. Trying to pee in peace.”
“If you can’t use a bathroom that matches who you are,” she added, “it becomes harder to go to work and it becomes harder to go to school.”