Coachella says it’s safe for LGBTQ people, but transgender siblings say they were denied restroom access

Donavion"Navi" Huskey, 31, left, a transgender woman, and sibling, Taiyande"Juice" Huskey, a trans-masculine coach, referee and fashion designer, were turned away from restrooms corresponding with their gender identity at last year's Coachella festival. She had waited all day to see Queen Bey perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio last April and made a quick stop at the restroom before the concert began.

The next day, Huskey’s sibling, Taiyande “Juice” Huskey — who identifies as transmasculine, presents as male and uses the pronouns “they” and “them” — was turned away from a men’s restroom and escorted out by a security guard who said he would show Huskey to a gender-neutral restroom but then didn’t.

“The fortunate reality of California in 2019 is that the law agrees with them,” said Amanda Goad, an attorney for the ACLU of Southern California. In the letter, the ACLU asked the festival operators to present a written policy by March 6 that guarantees attendees at Coachella and all other AEG and Goldenvoice events access to restrooms and other facilities based on their gender identity. The attorneys also asked the festival operators for a plan to train all Coachella 2019 on-site staff and contractors on that policy.

Coachella is an overpriced hellhole.

TRUMPiCANS 🇺🇸

ACLU_SoCal Please help to get this investigated. Please help to save a life and report this to the US authorities

“Gender identities” aren’t a real thing tho...

As a woman I don't want to share a bathroom with biological/Pen*s using males. Period. I get how for Transgenders in restrooms are unsafe +conflicts arise. Men, Women & Trans/Androgynous bathrooms. No biological gender identifying persons should be in their bathroom either. done

Lol what is this garbage

The ACLU has transformed into a totally shit organization. The far left has ruined it. There is no coming back.

Geez.

I'll be attending Coachella this year, so it'll be interesting to note these changes.

Wish LATimes would interview any number of abused women the ACLU has been ignoring for 20 years. 2,000 women killed in the U.S. in 2015, but let’s litigate, bathrooms! Why? Bigger donations from double income gays than women trapped in a patriarchal system. ACLU went for the 💰

I haven’t been in a few years but I remember all the restrooms being porta potty’s?

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