Transsexuals Bounced From STA Bus

Jessica Jahn, left, and Mat Kellogg didn’t have a great trip on an STA bus. (Inlander Photo: Young Kwak)

I t was 16-year-old Mat Kellogg’s first time riding the bus in Spokane. But Kellogg, a kid from Deer Park attending Spokane Falls Community College, never finished that ride. Nor did Jessica Jahn, 21, and Kaitlyn Bahn, 24, who were with him. They are all transsexuals — born one gender but taking hormones to become the other. And they all say they were kicked off the bus in the middle of a South Hill neighborhood, a mile from their bus stop, for discussing bisexuality. Yet, the riders say that their conversation was never explicit or offensive — unless the words “bisexual” or “queer” are offensive — and that by the time they were actually kicked off the bus, there were no other passengers onboard. “I know she broke the law,” Jahn says of the bus driver/ Daniel Walters , Pacific Northwest Inlanders. More here.

Question: Were the civil rights of the bus riders violated?