Man who choked 8-year-old girl in women’s restroom stokes alarm over transgender access

FILE- In this Aug. 23, 2007, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to a gender-neutral restroom at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

The attack by a man on an 8-year-old girl in a women’s restroom last week in a Chicago restaurant is raising alarm about opposite-sex access to public facilities in the name of transgender rights.

Police say the man, 33-year-old Reese Hartstirn, entered the women’s room May 7 at Jason’s Deli in Chicago’s South Loop and choked the girl until she passed out.

The girl’s mother, who was in the adjacent stall, heard her daughter’s screams and rescued her, while restaurant patrons held the suspect until police arrived, according to WLS-TV in Chicago.

Opponents of laws allowing opposite-sex public-facility use argue that they increase the danger of such attacks because they allow men, transgender or not, to enter women’s rooms unchallenged.

“I’m sure his intent was innocent,” said Susan Wright in a Friday post on the conservative website RedState. “I’m sure he really felt that he belonged in the women’s restroom and the little girl was somehow oppressing him, which caused the confusion, resulting in his hands ending up around her neck.”

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Hadenoughalready
Hadenoughalready
8 years ago

And they gave not thought to this happening? Really? Apparently they either don’t have kids or can’t see past their finger-plugged noses…

robert11011
8 years ago

This story was wiped clean off the net on original news site.

Mark
Mark
8 years ago
Reply to  robert11011

Hmmm…lets put it back out…I’m sending it to my personal E-mail list in a minute

The Genie is out of the bottle. That tactic (at least for now) won’t work.