Trans bra-fitter
Yet again the issue is concealed behind layer after layer of dishonest language. In the Telegraph ffs.
M&S apologises over trans employee in bra department
Male employee. The issue was not trans but male.
‘Biological male’ caused a mother and teenage daughter ‘distress’ by approaching them in the lingerie area
What’s with the stupid scare quotes? He is a biological male, so why pretend it’s odd (or worse) to say so?
Marks & Spencer has apologised to a mother for causing her teenage daughter “distress” after she was asked if she needed help by a transgender employee in its bra section.
Male, damn you.
The retailer said it was “truly sorry” after the mother complained that her 14-year-old daughter had felt uncomfortable when they were approached by a trans shop assistant in the lingerie area of the shop, where they were hoping to have a bra fitting.
Male.
Although the staff member was polite, the mother said she felt it was “completely inappropriate” for her daughter to be approached by a “biological male” in that section.
Finally.
The following day, an M&S customer service assistant replied, apologising for the incident.
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The retailer said it took her concerns “very seriously” and would ensure her daughter “receives assistance from a female colleague during her next visit”.
Well how is it going to do that? Unless it tells the male assistant to stay out of the women’s underwear section?
No that’s not the plan. The plan is to make the customer arrange for Special Handling ahead of time.
“We want to make this experience as comfortable and positive as possible for her. Please let us know when you plan to visit again, and we will make the necessary arrangements,” the email said.
No, not gonna do that, we’ll just shop somewhere else thanks.
And what will they do for all their other customers? Will they all have to give M&S advance warning? How about M&S “tells the male assistant to stay out of the women’s underwear section?” FOREVER.
It’s so ridiculous. Shopping for clothes is bad enough, and to add another layer of “just call us ahead of time” is way MORE than bad enough.
Sometime in the last few years I saw someone comment that if he gets a job application that includes the applicants pronouns, the application goes into the round file. Such an employee is always far more trouble than he/she/they are worth.
Jim Baerg, I’m sort of the same way. If I have a theater program, and a bio includes pronouns, I don’t read the bio. I don’t give a damn at that point what that person has been in, or their accomplishments. They’ve just told me the only thing they care about is they/themselves. Fortunately, while theater has been taken over in many ways, there are still only a few people who put pronouns in the bio…and that alerts me to watch for who in the play might be trying to play the opposite sex (and often doing it badly, unless they are a female who has been on testosterone long enough that it is now not possible to know they are female unless you knew them when).