She used the women’s restroom, like she’d done many times, only this time the cops grabbed her on the way out, hands still wet from the sink, yanked behind her back and cuffed. They charged her with indecent exposure and loitering for “the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense.” She did not do these things, but this is how they punish trans women for being trans in public, for peeing where they don’t want you to pee.

