昨日の日記、Preliminary プログラム見つかったので貼り付けておいた。
それはさておき。
どこかには既出かもしれないが。
4月2日ニューヨークタイムズ紙によると、女子トイレを使用して、警備員に身分証明書を要求されたMTFの人が、裁判を起こし、勝訴したそうだ。
記事を読んで、気付いた点は4つ。
１．一人に支払われた額が2500ドルでなかなかの額。
２．「性同一性障害」とは関係なく、
＞adopt and enforce a policy allowing people to use bathrooms "consistent with their gender identity,"
「人々が自分の性的アイデンティティーに応じてトイレを使うように認める」という方針を採択させた事。
３．裁判を起こした「New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy」という団体の略称が「NYAGRA」（ナイアグラ）でバイアグラっぽいこと。
NYAGRA .
４.NYAGRAの代表の一人が「Hiroko Masuike」という日本人／日系人らしき人であること。
この写真の人。
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/04/02/nyregion/02restroom.jpg
以下記事貼り付け。
「トイレ差別」訴訟で勝訴…ニューヨークの性転換者
http://japanese.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2005/04/03/20050403000014.html
米ニューヨーク市の性転換者がトイレの利用をめぐる法的紛争の末、事実上勝利を収めたとニューヨークタイムズ紙が2日報じた。
同紙は男性として生まれたが、自分の性的アイデンティティーを女性と認識して生きてきた2人の性転換者が、女性トイレを利用した自分たちに警備会社の職員が身分証明証提出を要求し、強圧的な姿勢を示したのは、理不尽な差別だとし、性転換者権益擁護団体の支援でこの会社を提訴したと報じた。
これら性転換者たちは警備会社からそれぞれ2500ドルの賠償を受けた上、この会社が「人々が自分の性的アイデンティティーに応じてトイレを使うように認める」という方針の採択を条件とし事件終了に合意したと同紙は報じた。
同紙によると、韓国系の「ニューヨークトランスジェンダー公益擁護協会」の共同会長のポリン・パクさんは昨年4月、マンハッタンのあるショッピングセンターで女性トイレを利用して出た際、警備会社アドバンテ−ジ・セキュリティー所属の男女警備員5人に身分証明証を示すことを要求された。
パクさんは「女性警備員が『あなたは女性か男性か』と聞かれ、『女性のアイデンティティーを持っている』と答えると、警備員は『われわれの同僚の一人はあなたを男性だと考えている』と述べた」と明らかにした。
パクさん以外の他の性転換者も同じ時期に同社職員にこれと類似した差別的で侮辱的な扱いをされたことが判明し、パクさんらは「トランスジェンダー法律救助教育財団」の支援によってこの警備会社を提訴していた。
チョソン・ドットコム
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/nyregion/02restroom.html
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Transgender Group Reaches Agreement on Restrooms
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Published: April 2, 2005
When Pauline Park watched Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sign an amendment toughening the city's anti-discrimination laws two years ago, she never expected to become one of its first beneficiaries.
But yesterday, a complaint filed by Ms. Park - a co-chairwoman of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, which helped lobby for the amendment to the New York City Human Rights Law - became part of the first settlement issued under it. The amendment forbids discrimination based on sexual identity whether or not it differs from a person's biological sex.
The settlement, administered by the city's Commission on Human Rights, found that people working for Advantage Security, a New York security guard company, discriminated against Ms. Park when they demanded to see her identification after she used a women's restroom at the Manhattan Mall in Herald Square last April.
She said that she had been having lunch with friends and was "taken aback" when five guards - four men and a woman - stopped her after she used the restroom a second time that day. The first time occurred without incident, she said.
"They encircled me in a very menacing and hostile stance," Ms. Park said.
"The female security guard demanded to know, 'Are you a man or a woman?' " Ms. Park said. "I said to her that I identify as a woman. And she said, 'One of my colleagues thought you were a man.' "
The settlement also covered a second incident involving the same company at a different location.
Last March, an Advantage Security guard asked Justine Nicholas for identification after she came out of a women's restroom in a Manhattan office building where she was taking the Graduate Record Examination.
Like Ms. Park, Ms. Nicholas was born male but identifies herself and lives as a woman.
Under the terms of the settlement, Advantage Security will adopt and enforce a policy allowing people to use bathrooms "consistent with their gender identity," said Michael D. Silverman, executive director and general counsel for the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, which represented the two complainants before the commission. The company will also pay $2,500 to each complainant.
Ms. Park said she was pleased with the settlement.
In a statement released by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, Ms. Nicholas said that she had been "humiliated" by the incident and that the case would "increase the public's awareness of transgender people's needs."
Officials at Advantage Security did not return several telephone calls seeking comment.
The commission's chairwoman, Patricia L. Gatling, said that the settlement "sends a message that discrimination in any form will not be tolerated in our city."
