Anti-trans encounter in San Francisco caught on camera

SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco trans girl was verbally assaulted at a Union Sq. restaurant and video of the incident which was streamed dwell over TikTok has gone viral.

Lilly Contino and her canine had been having lunch on the Cheesecake Manufacturing facility in Union Sq. when a girl subsequent to her began telling jokes then provided to indicate Lilly the scars on her abdomen. When Lilly declined, the girl threw out her first verbal jab. Contino tells us the girl mentioned, “I will present you what I wish to present you son.” 

“And, after all, as a trans individual, I am extra delicate to gender language,” Contino mentioned.

That was just the start. The girl goes on to explain herself as a TERF. A trans eccentric radical feminist. Contino explains, “It implies that you assume you are a feminist. That you just care about girls’s rights. You care about lesbian homosexual and bi, lgb however not t.”

The girl then threatens bodily violence saying she hits laborious. Contino mentioned, “I used to be identical to flabbergasted. I’ve by no means been bodily threatened in public. I’ve by no means been berated in public.”

Contino says that is the primary time something like this has ever occurred to her.

Video of the encounter rapidly racked up hundreds of views. Contino says the help from all of viewers helped her keep sturdy. She by no means imagined, when she moved from Georgia, she would face this sort of discrimination in San Francisco.

“A part of this was simply shock and disbelief that this was taking place. I dwell in San Francisco for a purpose. I dwell right here as a result of it is a liberal metropolis, it is some of the queer-friendly cities on the planet. To have it occur in such a public place and have no person assist…” Contino mentioned.

Ultimately, after Contino referred to as for the supervisor, she acquired an apology from the restaurant. She is talking up with the hope of training the general public on trans points.

“The entire aim is to make the world a greater place for trans folks as a result of, even in essentially the most liberal metropolis on the planet, trans folks nonetheless have it powerful,” Contino mentioned.

KPIX reached out to the Cheesecake Manufacturing facility for remark and haven’t heard again.