When Tyler Brodsky took his two young daughters into an empty women's restroom at a gas station during a road trip from Florida back home to Oklahoma, he wasn't expecting a visit from the police. Brodsky recorded the now-viral moment a man demanded he leave the restroom because it... is for women only — an interaction that scared the girls and forced the manager to intervene. CBS News' Jared Ochacher spoke with Brodsky about the experience, during which he says he tried to remain calm.show more

Never an easy decision of how a girl dad handles this solo situation on the road. But I will always be on the side of the girl dad for the decision he makes to protect his daughters. The women's RR is always the safe bet for his daughters so to hell with the nosey man giving him grief and making his daughters cry.

I was a single father of a girl. You can't take a little girl into the men's room. This is the only choice.

Girl Dad here; I'll respectfully and politely take my daughter into the women's bathroom if I have to and I don't recommend trying to stop me. If they're too young to go on their own they're too young to be in a men's bathroom.

My error. @QuikTrip Commendable behavior by your employee who attempted to de-escalate the situation by closing the door. 💕 Your employee then apologized for the situation. 💕 Compassion and family support. The other family was also struggling but that father could also have taken HIS daughter into the men’s room like he was saying this father should have done. 💕

I love how it's 95% childless men (and bots) here in the comments saying the guy was right to call the cops 😂

I only see this guy, Tyler Brodsky just being a good dad to his two girls.

Watching all of these losers without daughters comment like brave men on the internet. Adults would see he has little girls and patiently wait for them to be done. Sometimes the bathrooms aren't clean enough for girls to use them. Normal people and experienced parents know this. Mouth off like that to most dads, and you are gonna have a big problem.

Not appropriate. Men should be in the men’s room. Even if they are with little girls as a parent.

Life isn't black and white. I relate to people's concerns about the potential of male perverts invading women's spaces, but this clearly wasn't that. I'm sure it's tough for dads taking their young daughters to use the bathroom, but also mothers taking their young sons to use the bathroom too. The debate around proper bathroom usage went astray a long time ago.

It’s six of one and half a dozen of the other. It’s either the dude takes the girls into the ladies or take the girls into the mens. People should mind their own business. Women use lockable cubicles but men would be using urinals in full sight of the girls. I can see his dilemma.

Brodsky did two thinks correct: Took efforts to ensure the bathroom was empty to take his daughters to he restroom in safe spot. Exercised an INSANE amount of patience to be a good example and not knock the living shit out of the karen in grey.

Tyler is a good dad and did the right thing. He has a cross on his t-shirt, just took the abuse. He could have taken them to the mens room too. Do not let children go to the bathroom alone, period.

Establishments without unisex Family facilities cause these issues to occur to a degree. Sending young children into a strange restroom unsupervised has always been stressful. Taking young children into your gender’s restroom can also be awkward. Let’s find grace and compassion for parents who are trying to be good parents. Have some children. Reproduce. The world is better when filled with the hope of a new generation.

all he had to do was throw on a wig and half of you all would've defended him

And the asshole's name is Robert Buckner. A piece of shit with 4 sons who's never had to be in this situation.

Old boomer should have just taken his wife and mother in law into men’s bathroom. It’s not like they have never seen a d**k.

I don't want men in the women's restroom in general, BUT I would never ever ever want my little girls using the men's room

This was an opportunity for kindness. Instead MAGA man used it to bully a father and his young daughters.

To everyone saying he should have brought the girls into the men’s room: have you thought that through? Men pee in open urinals. That’s exposing penises at the girls’ eye level. How is that the right thing to do? He went into an empty bathroom. He did the right thing.

I was a single father for 5 years with one daughter. This was my nightmare from the time she was 3 to 8 years of age. Fortunately for me, no one ever approached me in this manner. This was a true father and good parent to his daughters. HE DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG.

That creep waited until the last possible exit to take his fat ass wife and geriatric smoker mother in law to the bathroom. Then he wanted to throw the urgency on someone else. That man needs to be publicly harassed and shamed. I wish I’d been there!! Woo

I don’t understand what the problem is? The ladies that needed to use the bathroom could wait until they were done. He’s not a creep, he’s a father, with two little girls that need to use the rest room. I think this man totally overreacted.

The guy that was angry about a man in the women’s room…was also a man in the women’s room. Even worse, he had zero cause to be in it. Don’t they complain about straight men causing problems in women’s rooms?

They are all assholes. The guy with the disabled family could have asked nicer, the dad is obviously trolling by recording and slowly washing hands… the female manager could’ve helped wash hands. So stupid

I'd have asked that female manager to take the girls outside for a second and shut the door.

Sadly the MSM will somehow link this to “the discrimination trans people feel”, when in all reality, this dad was likely doing this in case some troon weirdos were there to exploit his daughters.

If this man were black the comments would be total opposite.

The mans an ignorant moron. The men in our family would not take the girls to a mans toilet, Its not the place for them. Sometimes we would use a disabled toilet as they are solo cubicles. Maybe thats a solution? You did the right thing for your girls!

Such a tough call. If dad stood at the door and explained to anyone coming in that he was with his daughters and would be quick not too many women would bitch about it. Family restrooms are the answer but staff tend to camp out there.

The old man was literally standing in the women’s bathroom berating the dad for being in the women’s bathroom. And to all you disagreeers - the manager and police were both on the dad’s side. It’s not inappropriate in this situation.

I wonder how many people b!tching about this think it’s ok for ‘trans’ to be in the women’s bathroom. This man had a legitimate reason to be in there.

His girls are supposed to go into the men’s room? That would be strange. Unwritten rules are mom with sons and daughters use the ladies room. Dad with son use men’s room. Dad with daughter uses ladies room. There is possible exposure in the men’s room.

ID BE MORE WORRIED ABOUT THAT PEDOPHILE HOLDING THE DOOR OPEN LOKING AT LIL GIRLS... DAD DID WHAT HE HAD TO DO.. OUR JOB IS TO PROTECT OUR KIDS.. NEVER TAKE LIL GIRL IN A MENS RESTROOM. WTF

Ppl in the comments saying he should have taken them into the men bathroom that’s full of open urinals are fckn sick. This was never an issue before the lgbt bathroom bs.

As women we’ve been told for years to accept weirdo men in dresses in our restrooms, but people are upset at a great girl dad making sure his girls are safe? Bug off….🙄