Atlanta Strip Club Accused of Transgender Discrimination
Posted on04 May 2012.
Ryan Lee, Associate Writer: News & Current Events
http://www.fenuxe.com/2012/05/04/atlanta-strip-club-accused-of-transgender-discrimination/ (http://www.fenuxe.com/2012/05/04/atlanta-strip-club-accused-of-transgender-discrimination/)
What would you do if you were entering an establishment and you heard the doorman and a manager denying admission to a transgender woman because they were afraid she would use the wrong restroom?
No, this isn't a scenario from the God-awful ABC show "What Would You Do?" – rather it was what a couple of Atlantans experienced when they tried to visit the Pink Pony strip club last weekend.
In a posting on Facebook, Atlantan Hudson Marr details how a transgender friend was denied entry into the Pink Pony because the security guard noticed the transgender woman's ID indicated she was born male.
"He says it's a 'restroom issue,'" Marr wrote on Facebook.
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Trans discrimination alleged against Pink Pony strip club
by Dyana Bagby
May 04, 2012 13:51
http://www.thegavoice.com/news/atlanta-news/4570-trans-discrimination-alleged-against-pink-pony-strip-club (http://www.thegavoice.com/news/atlanta-news/4570-trans-discrimination-alleged-against-pink-pony-strip-club)
A transgender woman says she was recently not allowed into Atlanta's Pink Pony strip club because her driver license still has a male gender marker.
Kyrah St. James, who says she lives full time as a woman and has been to the Pink Pony several times in the past year, said she was denied entrance into the popular strip club on Saturday, April 28, when the security guard at the entrance said she would have to speak to the manager because her ID showed an "M" and not an "F."
Repeated calls requesting comment from Pink Pony management were not returned.