Tyler Brodsky, an Oklahoma father of two girls, went viral after sharing a video that sparked debate over his decision to take his daughters into a women’s restroom.
Brodsky posted a TikTok video of his girls washing their hands in the bathroom. In the clip, an unidentified man wearing sunglasses on his head is seen standing angrily in the doorway of the bathroom as a manager tried to mediate.
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Brodsky said he had to take his daughters to the bathroom on a trip from Florida back to Oklahoma.
The man called the police and claimed Brodsky was “taking his sweet time.”
“There is a man with his two little girls using the women’s bathroom.”
The man argued that his wife and her mother were waiting to use the restroom and described his mother-in-law as “very ill,” but they wouldn’t enter the restroom until Brodsky left. Later in the video, you can see a woman in a wheelchair.
As the girls washed their hands, one of them started crying.
The man argued that the gas station manager could have taken the girls into the bathroom for Brodsky.
“This woman is a mother. She’s a woman,” the agitated man said. “She can bring her [therefore your] daughters in here. She’s a manager of the QT. You can ask her.”
“I’m their dad,” Brodsky replied.
“You don’t have any business being in the women’s bathroom,” the man said.
“They’re girls. They go to the women’s bathroom,” Brodsky said.
Melissa, the QuikTrip gas station manager, shut the door and expressed her frustrations with Brodsky.
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“I am so sorry,” she said. She then helped the girls get paper towels to dry their hands.
Brodsky left the bathroom, and the man was still on the phone with the police near checkout.
“This guy making a big deal about me taking my little girls to the women’s restroom, cause he wants me to take them to the men’s restroom,” Brodsky said, while recording the man.
“Probably a weirdo that wants to see them in there,” Brodsky said.
The man again said, “The police are on their way.”
In a follow-up video, Brodsky said police explained to the man that taking girls into the men’s restroom could raise the same type of safety concerns. He said ultimately, the police couldn’t do anything and asked the man to leave the store.
Brodsky praised their efforts at reassuring his girls that they were safe, and highlighted Melissa’s efforts of stepping in to help out. He said employees even gave the girls free Icees on their way out.
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He called on people to stop berating parents who “are just trying to be there for their kids,” and said there often “isn’t a perfect answer” for girl dads and boy moms.
However, he called on viewers to not take action against the man in the video. Brodsky said he hopes the video reaches the man, and that he realizes he was wrong.
