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Transgender man told to use women’s locker room ‘or get out’: suit

​​A transgender city employee slapped the Parks Department with a discrimination lawsuit after the man​ ​— ​ ​who was born a woman​ — was forced to use the women’s locker room or be barred from a Staten Island public pool, according to his complaint.

Bryan John Ellicott, who works at the city’s Office of Emergency Management, went to the Lyons Pool in Tompkin​sville last July.

The 24-year-old, who started hormone therapy in 2012 and is identified as male on his driver’s license, changed into swim trunks and a black t-shirt in the men’s locker room.

When Ellicott, who still has female physiology including breasts, returned to the changing area to swap out a shirt he was confronted by a Parks employee.

[Ellicott] fled the facility feeling ‘upset, embarrassed and stigmatized.’

 - Suit

“Hey you need to leave,” the employee allegedly told Ellicott.

“Someone complained about someone being in the locker room who doesn’t belong here,” the staffer said, according to the suit.

Ellicott said he was given a choice—go to the women’s locker room or get out.

A supervisor seconded the demand, according to the Manhattan civil suit, saying, “If you don’t like it you can leave.”

But Ellicott did not feel comfortable using the women’s changing area because he looks like a man with facial hair and masculine clothing.

Since swimmers must use the locker room to secure their belongings, Ellicott had no choice but to leave.

He fled the facility feeling “upset, embarrassed and stigmatized,” the suit says.

He was never given the chance to show that he was “legally male” by presenting his drivers license, Ellicott says in court papers.

The Staten Island native, whose late, EMT dad responded to the 911 attacks, wants the court to declare that other transgender do not have to use gender-specific facilities.

“This action concerns the ability of a transgender New Yorker to participate fully and equally in society and to enjoy public facilities on the same terms as all other New Yorkers,” the suit says.

Ellicott said the incident was so upsetting that he stayed away from public pools for the rest of the summer.

It also exacerbated his gender identity disorder, a medical diagnosis for the distress often experienced by transgender people, according to the suit.

He is seeking unspecified money damages.

A spokesman for the city’s Law Department said, “We will review the lawsuit when we are served” with legal papers.