Guard Charged With Assault After Confronting Transgender Woman Using Women’s Restroom, Police Say

NBC News – by Jackie Benson

D.C. police have charged a security guard at a Giant grocery store with simple assault after a transgender woman said the guard forced her out of the women’s restroom.

Ebony Belcher, 32, said she went to the Giant in northeast D.C. with a friend to pick up a delivery from the Western Union.

While at the Giant, she asked a store employee to point her to the restroom and passed a female security officer standing in the hallway.  

The officer came into the restroom and told her to get out, according to Belcher.

“She opened the door and came in and started calling me derogatory names,” Belcher said.

She said the officer put her hand on her shoulder and arm, grabbed her and pushed her out of the store.

Belcher said the guard told her, “You guys cannot keep coming in here and using our women’s restroom. They did not pass the law yet.”

She said she called police and reported the incident after she left the store. According to a police report, officers arrested the guard at the Giant after the confrontation.

Belcher said she suffers from Parkinson’s disease and almost fell while the officer was shoving her.

The guard, who has not been identified, is a special police officer at a Giant store near Third and H streets in northeast D.C.

Giant issued a statement, which read: “As this matter involves a third party that provides security services for Giant and there’s an ongoing criminal investigation, all inquiries related to the incident at the H Street Giant should be directed to the local police for a comment at this time.”

Ebony Belcher is pictured.
Photo credit: Jackie Bensen/NBC Washington

President Obama recently issued a directive to public schools that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice.

A controversial law in North Carolina has also brought the issue to the forefront. The law says transgender people must use public bathrooms, showers and changing rooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificate. The Justice Department has sued North Carolina, saying the law violates civil rights laws.

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2 thoughts on “Guard Charged With Assault After Confronting Transgender Woman Using Women’s Restroom, Police Say

  1. “….You guys cannot keep coming in here and using our women’s restroom. They did not pass the law yet…..”

    “Cannot keep coming in here?” This is obviously becoming a problem already, and I expect the number of rapes in public school bathrooms to skyrocket, but of course, those crimes will never be in the “news”. The rape victims will simply be sacrifices to gender madness.

    The trannies won’t stop using the girls bathroom until they’re afraid to. Either they get beaten up, or you start getting used to freaks in the bathrooms with your daughter.

  2. Restroom police. That’s where it’s headed. The really bad thing is, I can’t pick a side in this one. They’re both horribly rotten. I guess the only sane course of action is to beat the aberration to death with a baseball bat and then when the restroom police show up, shoot em.

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