"Lieutenant Kevin Wiley oversees the Department's human trafficking operations and describes Oakland as "the hub of the West for child prostitution.""

It seems as though this article is talking about trafficking (involuntary and often underage) not people doing sex work voluntarily. Do you understand the difference between those?

being a prostitute isn't easy. Pimping probably is pretty easy if you're emotionally manipulative and violent.

Good.

From the article, I'm not sure how this is a trend and not just something a couple stupid people did.

Maybe they're worried about people who have penii flashing them, intentionally or unintentionally. When they say a person appears to be a "man," that's probably what they mean. It's a stupid fear, in my opinion, but one I'm sure many ciswomen would share.

I am not offended at all. I don't think all men are creepy, either. But I do think that there are good reasons to keep men out of women's change rooms as a general rule. I don't know that this case was handled well or sensitively, but if you're arguing that cismen in general should be allowed in women's change rooms,…

So to complete the circle for you, the presence of things like five o'clock shadows, pronounced Adam's apples etc typically signify to observers that their owner is a man. If one, possessing these traits and a male build, walks into a woman's change room, it's not shocking that someone might challenge them.

That's really not such a good example. Gay is already an adjective and Lesbian is a demonym, thus you don't need to add anything to them to make them capable of modifying something. Gender is a noun or a verb, and if it's a verb then you have to make it a participle to make it modify something and since gendered is…

No, moron, I'm not calling her a bio man. I'm responding to your drivel about how "even if she were just a man in a frilly shirt" (meaning a bio man, not a trans woman).

Seriously? So everyone should be comfortable with bio men in dressing rooms where women are quite often naked?

It is not her responsibility to be "pretty," or even to "pass". It is absolutely the responsibility of the lingerie store to protect ALL of the other women—cis and trans—inside their store from a wolf in the sheepfold. If any associate had even a shadow of a doubt that Kylie Jack anything other than just a woman…

I think there is one thing that separates (but doesn't justify) this particular instance from the standard bathroom-policing. Many men see lingerie stores as sexually-charged spaces in a way that is not true of other places that are generally sex-segregated: I have heard horror stories of jacking off in changing rooms…

My argument has nothing to do with flashing cunts.

Maybe because it gets tiresome to see so many people so quick to jump on an outrage bandwagon?

There are issues with the policy, for sure, but what if it's unclear is someone is trans or if they're a cis crossdresser? Personally I see no point in gendered fitting rooms or bathrooms regardless, but even among people who…

I do not countenance transphobic or bigoted behavior, but I am with you that we may not have an accurate picture of what transpired here. Kylie Jack is indeed extremely masculine looking, and I can imagine that a lingerie salon may, right or wrong, fear a pervy man putting on a dress and saying he is a transwoman to…

Thank you. Though to me it seems like reading a lot into it. I mean isn't cisgendered the proper for someone who's assigned gender was correct? Mind you, I'm not arguing that she isn't correct about it not being a verb (English wasn't ever my strongest subject). Just that assuming that someone means offence or…

Kylie went apeshit on Facebook a couple days ago because literally every single person she encountered on her anniversary "sirred" her. I honestly think this is an extension of that PERCEIVED public shaming.

Why is the -ed problematic?