Transgender woman says she was kicked out of spa because ‘she looked different’

[Jamie D]

Transgender woman says she was kicked out of spa because 'she looked different'

CENTREVILLE, Va. — A California transgender woman alleges that, while on a business trip last year, she was asked to leave a suburban Washington D.C. spa because the manager told her "she looked different."

Riya Suising, a Chinese-American transgender female and businesswoman from Palo Alto, Calif., said she was told by the manager at Spa World in Centreville, Va., that five other customers had lodged complaints about her presence.

Suising said she is very tall and muscular and has very broad shoulders, which may distinguish her from natural-born females, but that otherwise her gender presentation is very feminine....

After the Better Business Bureau opened an investigation, Spa World's owner, Sang K. Lee, responded on Jan. 28 to the BBB in writing, stating: "It is our policy to not accept any kinds of abnormal sexual oriented customers to our facility such as homosexuals, or transgender(s)," reported the Fairfax Times.

Spa World's written reply said its policy is for the "safety and the comfort of young children" who use facility.



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[Laura91]

For *bleep* sake!!

Just because someone is a transperson does not make them a frickin' sexual deviant!

Nor does that make them a "threat to the children".

Some people make me sick.

Honestly, I would worry more about a cisgendered heterosexual individual if I wanted to conjure up a threat in my mind.

[kelly25]

Just becouse she didn't look like a average cis women really. I can't. Belive those people complained becouse she didn't look average
I wounder what the falicty response would have been if she had been a cis women becouse I know some that look like that
And what the beep to say that homosexual and transgenders are a threat to children just shows how small minded and sick some people are

[kira21 ♡♡♡]

Wow and that isn't against state laws there? Backwards!

[Michelle-G]

I'm seeing a lawsuit coming.  I'm not a litigious person, but I hope there is a legal complaint!  This has to be made as painful as possible for this spa owner.