“Gender Identity” Discrimination at Peabody Restaurant?

[Shana A]

"Gender Identity" Discrimination at Peabody Restaurant?

http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2010/03/gender-identity-discrimination-at_11.htmlf

The GLBT newspaper Bay Windows is reporting a claim of "gender identitiy" discrimination that supposedly occurred at Capone's Restaurant in Peabody in late January. What's missing from the story, "Transgender discrimination alleged at Peabody eatery"? PHOTOS of the people! So, we thought we'd help by supplying photos of the major players.

The only photo in the front-page Bay Windows story was of the empty restaurant:
Capone's restaurant in Peabody, Mass., was the scene of alleged gender-based discrimination on Jan. 29.

There, on the night of January 29, a group of men dressed as women entered the restaurant -- and were asked by staff to leave. The photo of the so-called "transgender women's" (i.e. men's) group involved helps us understand why. Here's the "Sisters Family" group, which was behind the restaurant invasion:

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[LordKAT]

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[Miniar]

Fixxed!

[Adio]

I'm a little confused by the wording of this article.  "...a group of men dressed as women...", "...so-called "transgender women's" (i.e. men's) group..." In describing a picture:  "Tall man on right is a member of the "Boston Sisters" – seen at the recent Transgender Lobby Day at the State House. (He's on far left in Sisters photo above.)"

A quote from the "leader" of the group:  "'They don't want us using the ladies' room,' Ashley Bottoms, a member of the Sisters Family, said. 'Some of the girls in our group, even though they're legally female...I said, 'look, let's just try to get along with these people.''"


The author makes it sound as if these women are crossdressers (putting transgender women in quotes, calling them "a group of men dressed as women", and calling one of the girls a man) when it seems pretty clear to me that they are transgender/transsexual women (based off of Ms. Bottoms' quote, among other things).

Ah, just figured it out.  It's one of those blogs.

[tekla]

So now they are the fashion police after they went and named the restaurant after a notoriously brutal psycho serial killer, who as far as anyone knows lived in New York, Chicago, the middle of San Francisco Bay, and for the last few months, in Florida and never went near Boston.  Be sure to check out their other fine restaurants, Dahmer's For Meats! and the Ed Gien Cafeteria.

Coming soon from these morons, the Michael Jackson Children's Daycare Center, and the Jerry Garcia's Clean and Sober Space.

[PanoramaIsland]

This would be why I head in the opposite direction whenever an American mentions "values..." Gotta love the Jesus Nazi types, hmm?

[tekla]

I don't think these people are the Jesus Nazi type, just standard business practice "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."

[PanoramaIsland]

Oh, I was referring to the blogger as a "Jesus Nazi," not the restauranteurs.

I'm hoping that in the future, anti-discrimination laws will be strong enough that people following this sort of "standard business practice" will know, unequivocally, that they reserve the right to get sued into next Wednesday for "refusing service to anyone" based on their gender identity/presentation.