'Get over it!': Trans 'research fellow' tells NH lawmakers they must accept 'women with penises'

A transgender activist told New Hampshire lawmakers in a recent hearing that women need to "get over it" if they are uncomfortable seeing trans-identified males with male genitalia in their bathrooms. The hearing was concerning a bill that would define biological sex in the state's legal system. 

The activist, identified as Hazel Kane, a research fellow at the University of New Hampshire-Manchester, told the lawmakers in the hearing, "We just have to get something straight. We have to tell it like it is: trans women are women. Some women are born with brown skin, some are born with light skin. Some are born with green eyes and some are born with blue eyes. Some have uterine, some have vulvas, and some have XY chromosomes and penises."

Kane then compared not allowing men into women's locker rooms and bathrooms to the type of segregation that took place in Jim Crow, saying that we are in the "same era" right now.

"And I'm going to be quite frank with you, and I apologize for who I will offend. If you are a woman with a vulva and you're uncomfortable seeing a woman with a penis, too bad. You have to get over it. There are women, white women, who are uncomfortable being around brown women. We did that a century ago with segregation as Jim Crow. People decided that because you had dark skin, you were more dangerous, you were more likely to commit violent crimes, and because of that, you had to be cast away."

"You couldn't be in the same restaurant with the white person. You couldn't be in the same bathroom or the locker room. You couldn't even drink from the same fountain. And we're in the same era right now. You'd think we all learned something, but apparently we didn't," Kane went on.

The activist later said that because those who identify as trans women are taking steps to alter their bodies such as to be "incapable of penetrating a person, they are clearly not of the category that should be prohibited from these bathrooms."

Kane later claimed that laws that would prohibit biological males from entering women's bathrooms would be taking away the rights of those who identify as trans women.

The bill in question in New Hampshire, Senate Bill 552, makes a definition for biological sex and defines it as "the male and female biological sexes."