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Texas Man Bursts Into Ladies' Room To Check Woman's Gender

"When I saw you enter I thought you was [a boy]. You dress like a man."

A man who followed a cisgender women into the ladies' room at a Texas medical facility on Thursday said he was only doing so because he was "confused" by the woman's androgynous style and assumed she was male.

Though it's clear he was trying to police the woman's gender to decide whether she was using the "correct" restroom, it's unclear what he would have done if he determined she was using the wrong one.

"When I saw you enter I thought you was [a boy]," the man says calmly in video given to the Dallas Observer by Jessica Rush.

Rush was at Baylor Medical Center in Frisco for an appointment and came face-to-face with the man after he barged in the bathroom behind her. She told the paper that at the time, she was sporting a bleached blond fauxhaux and a t-shirt with a pair of basketball shorts.

"Yeah, it was kind of confusing," the man adds. "You dress like a man," he says several times as he walks away.

Later on when Rush returned to the waiting room where the man was also sitting, a second video shows the man continuing to try to justify his actions to her.

"The point is I was helping my mom. I was confused when I see someone entering the woman's bathroom looking like a man," he said. "Each one of us is man or woman so...I wanted to make sure she was going to the right place."

Though Rush isn't trans, she recognizes the inherent danger in people trying to police the gender of others in public restrooms. It's a problem that is already a reality in North Carolina, where a new law signed by Gov. Pat McCrory forbids trans people from using the restroom that matches their gender identity.

"It makes me feel suuuper insecure," Rush said, adding that similar gender checks have also happened to her at Hobby Lobby and 24 Hour Fitness. "Welcome to my world."

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