'Because We Can': How Society Justifies Anti-Transgender Discrimination

[DriftingCrow]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/parker-marie-molloy/anti-transgender-discrimination_b_4273822.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender
Author: Parker Marie Molloy Source: Huffington Post

[After not allowing a trans woman to enter a club, her friends complained to an employee about it] The employee's response? "What's wrong with that? We can do that -- we have the right to be selective. We can do that. We're a private property."

In what other circumstance would it be OK to discriminate against someone like this?

Along with examples of discrimination against transgender people in employment, housing, and public accommodations, it's become the norm to expect the worst and hope for the best. It's not right, though. It's not right at all. We shouldn't have to.


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Related:
Alissah Brooks, Transgender Woman, Allegedly Denied Entry To Don Pollo Bar & Grill [UPDATED]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/transgender-woman-discriminated_n_4254769.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender
Author: James Nichols Source: Huffington Post

Alissah Brooks, who is a celebrated drag performer in Atlanta, posted a disturbing video to her YouTube channel last week that documents her friends confronting employees of Don Pollo Bar & Grill after they allegedly denied Brooks entry to the establishment.

[genderhell]

In what other circumstance would it be OK to discriminate against someone like this?

If you search google, "restaurants refuse OJ Simpson" , then you can see restaurant owners denying service to O.J. Simpson, because they did not like him.

[Stardiver]

It sounds like the justification given by many libertarians who believe that people should have the right to discriminate in their businesses for any bigoted reason - "Personal property trumps human dignity."

[LordKAT]

To a point discrimination in business is warranted. The problem is where to draw the line. No business should be forced to have employees wearing rags, but then again, I think any business should have the right to allow smoking, or disallow it.

[Mercédes]

It sounds like the justification given by many libertarians who believe that people should have the right to discriminate in their businesses for any bigoted reason - "Personal property trumps human dignity."

nice "Libertarian" baiting. not that I care one way or the other but I always find it predictable that neo-cons and Liberals always point the passive aggressive finger at each other yet can not or will not work to find a solution. Simple minded bigotry knows no political spectrum, the obvious cure is to laugh at them and move on.

[Stardiver]

nice "Libertarian" baiting. not that I care one way or the other but I always find it predictable that neo-cons and Liberals always point the passive aggressive finger at each other yet can not or will not work to find a solution. Simple minded bigotry knows no political spectrum, the obvious cure is to laugh at them and move on.

I said "many libertarians," not all of them. Most libertarians, some friends of mine among them, are not opposed to the Civil Rights Act, but some extremists are. Personally I see those extremists as neo-cons who want to smoke weed, but whatever. I'm sorry that you got that impression. I don't dislike libertarians, even though I don't agree with everything they say.