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Walmart fired Dani Davis, a 6'4" cisgender woman, after a man who mistook her for transgender verbally threatened her in a women’s restroom at a Florida store.

Davis, visibly shaken, reported the March 14 incident to her immediate supervisor but was fired for not informing salaried management, allegedly creating a “security risk.”

Davis called the firing discriminatory. After viral backlash, Walmart offered to reinstate her with back pay.

Davis, a longtime employee, is uncertain about returning, citing fears of a hostile work environment.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

What a fucking chode that guy is.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I want to say something about how stupid this is, but there are no words in all the 5 languages I speak fluently to describe the amount of stupid in this.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

FIT YOURSELF INTO THE PROPERLY SHAPED HOLE OR DIE

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Just like Imane Khelif, the female boxer, who IS cisgender. I guess she didn’t look female enough for some people.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This literally happened in the 1954 Lavender Scare. Coworkers could report you for being a "security risk" and you'd be fired because they assumed you were a lesbian.

It's why we have pride parades, to exercise that muscle and stamp out the fear of "otherness" in society.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Americans are so poisoned it’s beyond belief. WTF???

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

That's a helluva lawsuit. They'll likely settle out of court.v Heres hoping she makes out with retirement money.

[–] [email protected] 158 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are people finally now realizing that transphobia affects cis people?? Even if you don’t declare yourself trans, but look any different than typically feminine or masculine, you’re a target for the folks who can “always tell”. It goes without saying that these people are unimaginably idiotic.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are people finally now realizing that transphobia affects cis people??

Same for homophobia. Sadly, some folks don't realize until it happens to themselves or to someone they care about.

Hopefully, these stories will help wake some people up to that reality before that happens.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am a straight man. I have lived as a straight man all my life. I have only been with women.

Yet, I was somehow bullied for being gay in high school until I just dropped out. I mean, there was more to it than that, but that was the reason I vomited when I seen the school sign.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had a similar experience as yours. . .

May the bastards that wronged us stub their toes weekly, may both sides of their pillow be warm, may their tires find every sharp object on the road.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Straight cis woman here and same (only I didn’t drop out)… everyone thought I was a lesbian and I got bullied for it, there is nothing wrong in being a lesbian but apparently it was supposed to be an insult to me???

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well, I’m 40. At that time we all thought there was something to be ashamed of. As much as it pains me to know I ever felt that way, I lived in constant humiliation like I wasn’t a real man or something.

My step dad (who I love and have a thousand reasons to defend when you look over the course of my life. He seems evil without context) also put me through it. “Daddy’s little girl” “little fag like his father”. Good lord, i type that out and he seems irredeemable, but he did redeem himself, honestly. Somehow he did. It turns out he went through the same thing, was the dumbest man I ever knew, and just wanted me to be as manly as I could be because that’s what it takes to keep from getting your head stomped in the world we come from. Believe it or not, it came from a place of love which somehow makes the trauma worse.

I don’t know. Life is long, and it’s tremendous. I heard that in a song years ago and it stuck out to me. I mean, we know it’s short, but some things make some times so so so long.

Is what it is. I have a drop dead gorgeous 10 out of 10 wife that any straight man would envy me for. I have kids who love me. This world is a beautiful place once you make your way, despite all of the ugly chaos.

My step dad loved me or he wouldn’t have walked to a crappy job every day just to buy my Christmas presents. He was just misguided and abused himself, and he wasn’t smart enough to see that. The way it was, that was just the way it was for him and he wasn’t smart enough to look at it any other way.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

These fucking Conservatives desperately need to have their fucking heads kicked in. They're fucking apes; they don't understand anything else.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My goodness. this poor woman. Man. People suck a lot nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

It's a very specific group of people who suck like this, and they think they're the heroes of the story.

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