Cis Woman Says She Was Mistaken as Trans, Harassed in Walmart Bathroom

A cis woman from Connecticut took Facebook and said she was harassed in a woman's Walmart bathroom Friday after apparently being mistaken as a trans person, the Huffington Post reports.

Aimee Toms, 22, said her short pixie haircut was covered by a baseball cap during the incident, and that she was washing her hands inside the store in Danbury, Conn. She said a woman approached her and said, "you are not supposed to be here, you need to leave."

"At first, I was like, does she think that I work at a different store and I shouldn't be in this bathroom?" Toms said in a Facebook video. "So I said, 'yes I do.' And then she flipped me off and she's like, 'you're disgusting' and she storms out."

She said it took her a moment to figure out what happened to her and then she put two-and-two together, remembering anti-LGBT laws that prevent trans people from using public restrooms that match their gender identity is currently a hot button issue in America.

"I can get why at first glance she would mistake me as transgender," she said in the eight-minute clip.

Toms also pointed to her short hair, which she said she recently cut to donate to cancer patients.

"But I turned around and I looked at her, and at the sake of sounding blunt, I am not a flat chested person. I've got something going on up here," she added.

Toms said the kind of discrimination she encountered last week was horrible.

"I cannot fathom the discrimination transgender people must face in a lifetime," Toms said, adding she hopes her story will add to the national conversation about how "amazingly ridiculous this is becoming an issue."

"These people are who they are and they're not going to change themselves to make you feel comfortable," she said.

Watch Toms' Facebook video below.