Trans Person Kicked Out of Denver Club: For Using Legal Bathroom, or Behaving Badly?

Just after midnight on February 26, Xadie James — who identifies as a feminine nonbinary trans person and uses she/they pronouns — went into the women’s bathroom at Milk Bar and wound up getting kicked out of the club at 1037 Broadway.

“I usually, in public scenarios, use the women’s bathroom, especially if it’s really busy, because I get a lot of harassment using the men’s bathroom,” says James.

The long line for the women’s bathroom stretched out the door. James remembers being near the front when a man yelled through the open doorway, saying “something along the lines of, ‘Bro, you need to get out of the women’s bathroom.’”

James didn’t realize the man was a staffer, and at first ignored him. When it became clear who the man was, James tried to explain that…