Trans woman is ‘grabbed and shoved out of Florida nightclub by bouncers’ after using women’s toilets – despite her ID showing she is still legally a man
- Piper Ayers said that bouncers booted her out of Dixie Roadhouse in Cape Coral
- She said she was wearing a crop top and pleaded with security that she was trans
- She broke down in tears and recalled humiliation that left her feeling ‘worthless’
- A sign on club’s door says racist, sexist and homophobic people are not allowed’
A transgender woman has claimed she was grabbed and shoved out of a Florida nightclub after she used the women’s bathroom.
Piper Ayers said bouncers seized and booted her out of Dixie Roadhouse in Cape Coral on Friday because she is legally still male.
She explained she was wearing a crop top, skirt and high heels and pleaded with security for her right to use the ladies’ restroom.
She broke down in tears as she recalled her humiliation and said the traumatic experience left her feeling ‘worthless’.
It came despite a sign on the club’s door saying racist, sexist and homophobic people are not allowed in.
Piper Ayers said bouncers seized and booted her out of Dixie Roadhouse in Cape Coral on Friday because she is legally still male
Ayers is pictured with some of her LGBTQ community friends, who she says are ‘accepting’ of her transition
The Dixie Roadhouse nightclub in Cape Coral, Florida was voted best regional club in 2021. Its received both backlash and praise for what allegedly happened to Piper Ayers
It came despite a sign on the club’s door saying racist, sexist and homophobic people are not allowed in
Ayers told NBC2: ‘This is who I am. You get laughed at, you get scoffed. We decided to come down here to Dixie and just have a little fun.’
She continued: ‘I go to the bathroom, next thing you know they’re saying something to me.
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‘The next thing you know, they grab ahold of me and start shoving me out the front door.’
She added through tears: ‘I just felt worthless. Like I wasn’t a person, or I didn’t have feelings or emotions. Just no respect.’
Her friend TJ Jackson told how her desperately tried to intervene and confronted bouncers as she was being booted out.
He said: ‘I asked one of the security guards… he said we just don’t allow men to use women’s restrooms.’
Ayers added to the station: ‘So we went to the manager and he said what does it say on your ID.’
She had not officially changed her name and gender so her identification badge read that she was legally still a man.
Another clubber named Sean, who had just met her, said her told the bouncers: ‘This is a woman, a trans woman, and you need to understand what that is.
‘This is not a drag queen or a cross-dresser. This is a trans girl, and you need to treat her as a lady,’ Despite the protestations, Ayers was kicked out of the club.
Ayers, who identifies as a woman, has not changed her legal name or gender. She was kicked out of the club because her ID says she is a man and therefore cannot use female facilities
Ayers says transitioning to life as a woman has been difficult for her. People ‘scoff’ at her, she told a local NBC affiliate
Her friend TJ Jackson told how her desperately tried to intervene and confronted bouncers as she was being booted out
Ayers said it has been been a lengthy and difficult process to discover who she really is and life as a transwoman has been hard for her.
The southwest Florida nightclub has so far refused to comment on the alleged altercation.
On the entrance to the club there is a sign that reads, ‘If you are racist, sexist, homophobic, or just a jerk… don’t come in.’
Dixie’s Roadhouse was voted the region’s ‘best nightclub’ last year but has been swarmed with criticism over the Ayers incident.
On a recent post asking patrons to vote for the club as one of the best spots in Cape Coral, one user, whose profile picture appears to be them in drag make-up, wrote, ‘Sorry, no votes for transphobia.’
But other users have thanked the nightclub for allegedly barring Ayers from using the women’s restroom.
One woman, whose profile has links to articles critical of drag queen story hours for kids, wrote: ‘Dixie Roadhouse, thank you for respecting and protecting women.’
DailyMail.com approached Dixie for comment.
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