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“Restaurant hangs disturbing transphobic sign: “We do not have a transgender bathroom”• A sign threatening transgender people who use the bathroom that matches their gender identity is causing controversy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, local...

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Restaurant hangs disturbing transphobic sign: “We do not have a transgender bathroom”

  • A sign threatening transgender people who use the bathroom that matches their gender identity is causing controversy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, local television station KFOR reported.
  • Around 10 months ago, owner Bob Warner hung the following sign in the window of the Steak and Catfish Barn: “We do not have a transgender bathroom. So don’t be caught in the wrong one. Thank you, Bob.”
  • Warner said the sign is a warning, not a threat. Transgender Oklahoma City residents see a different sentiment emanating from the sign. 
  • “I was disturbed,” Paula Schonauer, a transgender woman, told KFOR. Schonauer said the last sentence of the letter scares her. Read more (3/16/17 3:33 PM)
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