Transgender rights groups are following a case in Maine in which a transgender woman has been banned from using the woman’s restroom at the Denny’s in Auburn. Brianna Freeman of Lewiston is suing the owner of the Denny’s franchise, Realty Resources Hospitality, in Androscoggin County Superior Court.

Freeman says she is not seeking damages, just the right to use the women’s room. “I live and breathe as a female every day. I dress it, I portray it. I exhibit it,” Freeman says. “I see a counselor about three times a month. And I see a doctor regularly and get hormone treatments every day.”

Freeman says she had been using the women’s room at Denny’s for about a year before she was told to stop by a restaurant manager in October 2007. Freeman, a 45-year-old former software developer who is saving up for a gender reassignment surgery, says she doesn’t belong in the men’s room.

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