Republican Jazmina Saavedra, who is running for a House seat in California, accused a transgender woman of invading her privacy as she live streamed herself challenging the woman in a public restroom in Los Angeles.
“I’m trying to use the ladies’ room and there is a man here claiming that he is a lady,” Saavedra said in the Facebook Live video, filming just outside the bathroom stall in a Denny’s restaurant.
“You’re invading my privacy,” the transgender woman said in response.
“You’re invading my privacy because I’m a woman and I deserve to use the woman, the ladies’ room,” Saavedra said.
Saavedra is running in the 2018 midterm election against Rep. Nanette Barragan for a seat representing California’s 44th District, which includes the cities of Compton, Watts, and San Pedro.
Barragan condemned the video, which was posted Tuesday, and claimed that each person has the “right to their own identity.”
“I was appalled by the treatment that this woman received for simply trying to use the restroom. Everyone has the right to their own identity, and the right not to be discriminated against for who they are,” Barragán said in a statement to the Daily Beast.
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