Related: House Democrats support more gender-neutral bathrooms on Capitol Hill“I was using the bathroom, and she just started shouting,” Ruiz told Ohio Fox affiliate WXIX. “She was like, ‘Who the [expletive] is in here?’ And I replied, ‘I am.’ My girlfriend replied, ‘I am as well.’ She was like, ‘No man should be in this bathroom.
Like, if you’re a man you need to use a man’s bathroom.’”Ruiz explained to the woman that he is transgender and had been told to use the women’s bathroom by the campground’s owner.
But when exiting the bathroom, Ruiz says three large men attacked him, leaving him with cuts, gashes, and bruises. Ruiz’s mother, Jennifer Ruiz, says the men repeatedly called her son an anti-gay slur.“They, like, grabbed me up off the ground.
They choked me out. They said, ‘I’ll kill you, you [expletive] doing all this,’” Noah recalled. “And I said, ‘Dude, I’m not, I’m using the right bathroom.