Failing The Gender Test
Missoula, MT
A woman reported that she had been in the women’s locker room at the Student Recreation Center, and had seen some feet below the shower curtain, but no water was running.
The woman asked if the person was okay, and the person said “she†was, Lemcke said.
The voice, however, did not sound legitimately female, and the woman called Public Safety. Responding officers found a male student in the women’s locker room, Lemcke said. He was clothed except for his shoes, and told officers he had walked into the wrong locker room by mistake and was hiding in the shower until he could get out unseen, Lemcke said. Unconvinced, officers cited him for disorderly conduct.
Found in the Montana Kaimin
January 10th, 2007 at 9:23 am
I bet it was the hairy toes that gave him away!
January 10th, 2007 at 11:56 am
LOL, that and I’m sure it’d been a while since the boy got a pedicure.
I’ve always found it amazing that people don’t need to see someone to know if they’re male or female. Even on line, nine times out of ten, you can tell the sex of a writer just by the words they use. It’s not just our voices that are different, but our vocabulary is too. Subtle, but obvious.
January 15th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
I recently had an experience somewhat similar to this;
I work for a local utility company, and a caller, who had a deep,masculine voice, insisted he was “Amanda”, the person listed as the primary customer on the account. I asked him(her) if his (her) name was really Amanda, since we have to verify every person who calls, and he (she) got very huffy and demanded to speak to my supervisor. I, of course, transferred it to my super, knowing full well, someone was going to have a hissy-fit and it may as well be with my super, not me!
Anyway, turned out, this “Amanda” was originally “Manuel”, and had just undergone transgendering, but still sounded pretty manly. He lodged a complaint through the public utilities commission of Colorado (being a citizen of Trinidad, CO, the world’s foremost city for sex-change operations).
Made me quake in my boots for a moment, until I noticed that, according to the notes on his/her account, he’s been pretty sensitive and quick to notify the officials if he feels he’s being discriminated against.
Good luck, Manuel/Amanda! And guess what? Regardless of your chosen sex, you are still past due on your bill!