Khadijah Farmer, a lesbian woman who describes herself as “not the most feminine,” won a settlement from New York’s West Village restaurant Caliente Cab Company. For those who don’t remember, Farmer sued the Caliente Cab Company for allegedly kicking her out of the women’s restroom:

The woman, Khadijah Farmer, a 28-year-old who lives in Hell’s Kitchen, says she was at the Caliente Cab restaurant in the West Village after the Gay Pride Parade on June 24, (2007), when she left the table to go to the women’s room. While she was in there, the male bouncer burst into the bathroom.

“He began pounding on the stall door saying someone had complained that there was a man inside the women’s bathroom, that I had to leave the bathroom and the restaurant,” Ms. Farmer said. “Inside the stall door, I could see him. That horrified me, and it made me feel extremely uncomfortable. I said to him, ‘I’m a female, and I’m supposed to be in here.’ After I came out of the bathroom stall, I attempted to show him my ID to show him that I was in the right place, and he just refused to look at my identification. His exact words were, ‘Your ID is neither here nor there,’ which means that my ID didn’t matter to him.”

The last Friday settlement was announced on Tuesday. Farmer will be paid $35K, the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (her legal team) will be paid $15K, and the Caliente Cab Company agreed to change its workplace practices:

Among the workplace practices that Caliente Cab agreed to adopt in the settlement was to add gender identity and expression to its corporate nondiscrimination policy; to adopt a gender-neutral dress code for its employees; and to amend its employee handbook to state “persons patronizing or employed at Caliente have the right to use the bathroom facilities consistent with their gender identity and expression.”

Can we all say “Hooray”?