Trans woman allegedly turned away from hotel because "people like you can't stay here"
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/trans-woman-allegedly-turned-away-from-hotel-because-people-like-you-cant-stay-here/
By Faefyx Collington (16 April 2025)
Alabama native Sadie Vice traveled to Atlanta on March 3, 2025, to visit friends and take part in a charity show to raise funds for a friend with cancer. She booked a room with Extended Stay America Atlanta-Northlake via Expedia.
She went from the Lyft to the check-in desk with her reservation information, but she was turned away when she tried to check-in. Vice says that the agent at the desk first claimed that they didn't have any rooms. Confused, Vice said there must have been a mistake because she made a reservation and nobody had contacted her to cancel it. When she produced her reservation number, the agent looked at it and asked to see her ID. Sadie says that the agent, who wasn't wearing a name badge, then told her, "Your reservation was canceled because people like you can't stay here."
The desk agent then noted that Vice had another reservation at the same Extended Stay America later in that month, from March 25 to 28. The agent told her that she needed to cancel that reservation because, as Sadie puts it, "people like me couldn't stay there."
She was told that there was no manager available and that she needed to find a new place to stay. While she considered pushing the issue at the time, she told LGBTQ Nation, "They were not going to let me stay there, period."
Hmmm. I wonder what the response from their corporate HQs will be. There's a CD conference coming up in Atlanta in a few weeks. Will they also discriminate against CD people or just TG?
Quote from: April Marie on April 16, 2025, 01:04:01 PMWill they also discriminate against CD people or just TG?
And how do they know the difference? We aren't tattooed or showing any sign of either. Maybe I am transgender, or maybe I am a cross-dresser. Or maybe I have a medical condition that is none of their business.
Discrimination is discrimination. I hope she sues them for enough to own the franchise and turn it into an LGBTQ+ resort. Hah! Stick that in your waterpipe and smoke it.
Quote from: Lori Dee on April 16, 2025, 01:30:36 PMAnd how do they know the difference? We aren't tattooed or showing any sign of either. Maybe I am transgender, or maybe I am a cross-dresser. Or maybe I have a medical condition that is none of their business.
Discrimination is discrimination. I hope she sues them for enough to own the franchise and turn it into an LGBTQ+ resort. Hah! Stick that in your waterpipe and smoke it.
Absolutely! I'm really wondering what their corporate will say? We could not have been treated better during Keystone at the Hilton Harrisburg.
Money, the gain or loss of a lot of it, has a way of influencing the behavior of many people and organizations.
Quote"Your reservation was canceled because people like you can't stay here."
It means nice people. They don't let nice people stay there. Or work there, apparently.
This rejection seems racist like to me.
It is just wrong!