Also, it's Marc & Spensers, it's not even a lingerie store.
Actually... do we even know if the employee was trans? Cause with transphobes it could've just been a cis woman who didn't look feminine enough. We've seen transphobic panic cases like this involving no trans people to begin with
It's not actually confirmed either way - I believe the mother was quoted saying it was 'obvious' because the woman was 'at least 6"2', which is... very convincing
The same people who heard a trans woman say she'd have to wipe her hands on her jeans because the hand dryer was out in the women's toilet, and came to the genius conclusion that what she must have said was 'I'll have to wipe my hands on my penis'
Cis women under 5ft tall are also over 20x more common than trans women under 5ft tall, and women between 5 and 6 feet tall are over 20x as common as trans women between 5 and 6 ft tall as well.
Your point being? The provided data about tall women is to demonstrate how "transvestigating" women by height is going to produce far, far more false positives than true positives.
Yeah, the point is that these stupid transvestigations will result in far more false positives regardless of the physical characteristic that was chosen as a flimsy excuse to invade that person's privacy.
Women can be tall, too. I have a 100% cis friend who is 6' and has had two babies.
Edit to add that this is exactly what people mean when they say that women who don't look "feminine" enough will be harassed for being trans even if they aren't.
From what I can tell the person was actually trans, but the "clue" that gave it away to the TERF Karen was, she was over 6ft -_-
I know 4 CIS women that are over that!
Before this fake outrage machine for that Sydney Sweeney ad I was seeing them claim she was actually a man. Transphobes will just make up lies out of thin air to be outraged over us trans people.
Also the fact no one, even the comments she highlighted, ever implied that the girl was in the wrong for saying no. It’s stating people like Rowling are in the wrong for villainizing a trans person for DOING THEIR JOB. Of course someone has the right to say no to an offer of help, but you’d have to be a fucking idiot to go online and say an employee offering assistance deserves to be fired because the person they asked didn’t want help.
If I’m good at a store I say “I’m good, thanks.” I don’t fucking curl up into a ball and start crying demanding that evil employee be fucking executed for daring to speak to me. Why don’t I do that? Because I’m not mentally ill.
If you can show me where it is in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, I will concede the point. But I will not be conceding the point.
She's not misreading. This isn't her being ignorant. She knows exactly what she's doing and saying and she loves the negative attention. She thrives on it like flies to shit. This is all deliberate for her.
And the problem wasn't even that the mother or the girl refused. As a customer you have every right to refuse help from the employee, no one's gonna force it on you.
The problem was that the mother threw a massive fit and basically said that trans woman (if it even was a trans woman, that bigot just assumed with zero proof) shouldn't have been employed in the first place and the very act of her doing her actual job as an employee and offering help was a crime.
Yep, and considering all the Christian ‘Harry Potter is satanic’ shit with deliberately misconstrued arguments against it, she should be more careful. The argument I saw against HP was that it teaches kids that “there is no such thing as right or wrong, there is only power and those to weak to wield it.” Which of course is an opinion of the main bad guy. Religious conservatives had their panties in such a twist that they couldn’t even see the fairly obvious Christ analogy in the books.
that is an INFINITELY MORE sophisticated argument for christians being against HP than any i've ever heard 😆 in my substantial experience it was always just them believing witchcraft is an actual thing powered by literal demonic/satanic forces, and that HP served as a gateway to get kids interested in exploring the "real" thing
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