Bearded Man Gets Big Mad

Further to this recent drama, more overseas toilet-dispute news:

It turns out that a summer dress doesn’t make you a lady.

A female student at the University of Brasilia, the one being harangued and threatened, was seemingly unaware that the university has organised its bathrooms by “gender identity, not sex,” and so lively scenes are to be expected. The gentleman in question, Tulio Henrique Carvalho dos Santos, has, we learn, a history of difficult behaviour. Including hair-trigger aggression and denouncing any interruption of his loud and lengthy pronouncements as “transphobia,” akin to “racism,” and therefore a basis for legal action.

The University of Brasilia has subsequently issued a statement declaring the campus a “tolerant and plural place that values the richness and potential of diversity and respect for differences.” Which would presumably explain all the shoving, screaming and threats of violence.

Update, via the comments:

Mags adds,

That would, I think, be more honest. Given the context, the word “respect,” shouted repeatedly by our unhappy beard-bearer, does seem to have connotations of submission. To paraphrase, if I may, “You will defer to my delusions, regardless of probity, and regardless of your own comfort and safety, or you will be physically punished.” Which is to say, pretend or I will hurt you.

Via Mags.