NEW YORK—A woman filed a civil rights lawsuit against a popular Greenwich Village neighborhood restaurant Oct. 9, claiming a bouncer chased her out of the women’s bathroom because she looked too masculine.

Khadijah Farmer, who was at the Caliente Cab Company after New York’s gay Pride parade last June, said the bouncer ran into the bathroom, pounded on the stall door and demanded that she leave. He told her a customer complained a man was in the women’s room.

“I told him I was a woman, and I tried to show him my I.D.,” Farmer said at a news conference. “He refused to look at it. I was extremely uncomfortable and quite humiliated.”

Caliente Cab Company released a statement denying the discrimination claim and said Farmer’s “primary interest” was money.

“There has been no discrimination or violation of anyone’s civil rights or human dignity by Caliente Cab Company or anyone employed here,” the restaurant’s statement said.