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Transgender Student Arrested in Florida for Violating Bathroom Law, Believed to Be First Case

  • Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender student, was arrested for violating Florida's law barring transgender women from entering women's bathrooms in some government buildings.
  • Rheintgen was arrested after refusing to leave a women's restroom at the Florida State Capitol building, where she had entered to wash her hands and pray the rosary.
  • Rheintgen faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge punishable by up to 60 days in jail, and her arrest is believed to be the first under transgender bathroom restriction laws in any U.S. State with a criminal ban.
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A transgender college girl is arrested in Florida for using a female bath

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A twenty-year-old cross-dressing man from Downers Grove, Illinois, who goes by the transonym “Marcy” Rheintgen sashayed down to Florida with the intention of defying Florida’s […] Source

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Transgender student arrested for violating state's bathroom law

If Rheintgen is convicted, she worries she could be jailed with men.

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