Ontario Farmer's Market Gets Fresh With Trans Worker
http://www.queerty.com/rotten-apple-farmers-market-tosses-trans-worker-20110923/Management at the Trails End Farmer's Market in London, Ontario, is facing possible human-rights charges for telling a vendor she had to fire a transgendered employee because "those people" were ruining the market's family friendly atmosphere.Karen Clarke, owner of True 2 You, which sells candles and aromatherapy oils, left her stall at the Dundas Street market on a recent Saturday afternoon with Dani Dominick, a trans woman and one of her best workers, in charge. That evening, Clarke received a call from market manager Ed Kikkert, who told her, "if I was going to have 'those people' there anymore I'm invited to take my business elsewhere."
Says Clarke:
"He said it made everyone uncomfortable and it just wasn't right. This is a family place, a family market and this just isn't right. I just kept insisting what happened that was wrong and he said you walk up to the person and they're dressed like a woman and they've got big hands, a deep voice and tattoos and it's just not right. It's just not a family place he kept repeating that over and over again. And I kept trying to get from him what was wrong, what was so not right, what was it that people were complaining about and there was no details forthcoming that way. He called them 'those people' several times."
