Transgender issue leads club to cancel membership

[Shana A]

Transgender issue leads club to cancel membership
Rachael Gieschen is left hurt and feeling discriminated against after the board of directors for Hanover Seaside Club decided to cancel her membership. (Contributed photo)

By Shannan Bowen
Published: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 3:59 p.m.

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100714/ARTICLES/100719840/1005/sports?Title=Transgender-issue-leads-club-to-cancel-membership

Besides the obvious, life was different when Rachael Gieschen was a man. Gieschen had a membership to a beach-side club in Wrightsville Beach, founded a century ago by her family, and was part of a tight-knit local German community.

But now 69-year-old Gieschen, who transitioned physically three years ago to live as a woman, is left hurt and feeling discriminated against after the board of directors for Hanover Seaside Club decided to cancel her membership, citing reasons such as members expressing "agitation and concern" about Gieschen's presence as a woman.

[gennee]

Question: What do they mean by agitation and concern?

Gennee

[tekla]

So, when she was in the club and they didn't let other people in they were just being 'selective' but now that they have kicked her out they are 'discriminating.'  That's so cute.

[LordKAT]

So, when she was in the club and they didn't let other people in they were just being 'selective' but now that they have kicked her out they are 'discriminating.'  That's so cute.

And common. Golf clubs and 'gentlemens' clubs come to mind real quick as do Masons.

[tekla]

Well as long as they don't take away my knighthood in the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon and I can keep my Illuminati decoder ring it's all cool.