Charles Clymer goes full tiara-boy

You probably remember when we were first introduced to Charles Clymer last year when he accused David Clarke of “Stolen Valor” for his sheriff’s uniform. We went ahead and got Clymer’s military records just to verify his claims – he was an Army Specialist in the Old Guard and he went on to the US Military Academy as a cadet, but he was somehow injured and didn’t continue.

Well, I read an article about a transgender woman (that means he was born a man) by the name of Charlotte Clymer who had trouble in a DC restaurant when he tried to use the ladies’ room.

Sometime close to midnight Friday, Clymer made her way with a friend through Cuba Libre’s crowded hallways to use the women’s restroom. Before she could enter, however, Clymer said a male attendant stopped her – and her only – to request her ID.

“When I asked why, he said that ‘female’ must be on an ID to use the women’s restroom,” Clymer wrote. “I told him that’s nonsense, turned on my heel, and continued into the restroom.”

Clymer, a transgender woman who works as an activist and spokeswoman with the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for LGBTQ equality, knew she was in the right. Nevertheless, the male attendant followed after her into the women’s restroom.

“I go into a stall to do my business, and I hear him walk in and search for me in this busy restroom full of women,” Clymer wrote. “He is doing everything but opening the stall doors.”

Even after she had finished, Clymer said the male attendant was waiting for her outside the restroom. This time, he had Cuba Libre’s manager with him, who also insisted there was a D.C. law that backed up the attendant’s belief. The manager demanded to see Clymer’s ID, even after she repeatedly told him there was no such law.

Clymer refused to show her ID. An uncomfortable standoff ensued. The hallways were crammed, and people were beginning to notice them, she said.

“A part of me was already going into gaslight territory,” Clymer told The Washington Post in an interview Sunday morning. “I knew what I was talking about. I work on [these issues] all the time. But the more insistent he was, the more doubt crept into my mind.”

Well, I wondered if Charlotte was the person who we knew as Charles last year, and sure enough.

Charlotte Clymer claims to work for the Human Rights Campaign – it’s a misnamed organization – they are exclusively dedicated to LGBQT rights.

So, yeah, the Army dodged a bullet when Clymer was injured at West Point – they certainly didn’t need another activist officer.

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