Bathroom bills are insane to start, but to be extremely clear, even under a bathroom bill, this couple did nothing wrong: an afab enby used a women’s restroom while their partner waited outside, which is exactly the behavior bathroom bills attempt to enforce. The crime here is “existing while trans” plain and simple

Near the end of a lakeside barbecue with friends at Cypress Black Bayou Park, Shae Sanders (a nonbinary person assigned female at birth) used the women’s restroom just as they usually do. As their partner, Aurora Rush, waited outside for them, a man approached her, used slurs against her, threatened to beat her up if she entered the women’s restroom, and tried to get her to fight, trans journalist S. Baum reported.

When Sanders exited the restroom, a crowd of at least 10 men and women had formed around Rush, blocking their exit, calling her a “trny” and a “fgot,” allegedly threatening to murder her, saying they’d stop her from using the restroom by “any means necessary,” and proclaiming that their violence would protect children.