To think this journalist from the independent is rather deluded ?

Marks and Spencer themselves have admitted that the incident took place, because they have apologised for it and offered the mother an appointment with a female fitter.

If they could have wriggled off the hook by saying it didn’t happen, do you think they would have fessed up?

BTW there are at least eight TIM working in female departments in M&S, according to other complaints.

Virtue signalling crap. I don't know any adult women who would be happy to be fitted for a bra by a man,never mind a teenage girl.

One wonders how this journalist identifies or are they an escapee from the Guardian?

Except there’s no proof this happened.

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupiea man should not be asking a teenager if they need help in the lingerie department

I read the article. The writer is a privileged idiot.

Some horrendous errors in just a few paragraphs of rubbish
a) interpretation of what her daughter said to support her agenda, when it didn't,
b) making a comparative analysis that isn't comparative with POC,
c) making a factually inaccurate statement to add drama 'Trans people have effectively been banned from public spaces', they haven't
And who uses their 13 year old child and their bra fitting experience to further their agenda and get something published. Hope she got well paid for it and buys her daughter some new clothes, she deserves them.
You would have hoped for better from the Independent, but obviously not. No wonder the print media is in decline when they print this. Fortunately, most people see this BS for what it is. The days of men forcing their entitlement to the detriment of women under the guise of a trans agenda and anyone who disagrees being labelled phobic, are disappearing, fortunately. Some, like this journalist, still think it is the next civil rights movement to address injustices and have to write this garbage. It's not, and never has been and the irony of the agenda that puts back hard won sex based rights, is lost completely on people who write this stuff.

Read the report. There is nothing at all to suggest that the employee was definitely trans and nothing saying that the employee was trying to get a look at the girl. A member of staff asking generally if help is required is very different to, 'A man wanted to cop a feel of my child.'

Is this satire?!!!

What would you say if you heard, for example, that a person of colour working in M&S had approached a teenage customer and politely offered assistance, only for the teenager to feel uncomfortable, the parent to be outraged and complain about their “distress” – and the store to write an apology?

I can't believe she wrote this! 🫨

The journalist asked her teenage daughter whether she would have been distressed. By being asked by a trans person if she needed help on the lingerie department, and she said she’d have hated anyone asking her that whether or not they were trans. So presumably her daughter is also deluded.

Journalist is a virtue signalling prick. Willing to offer up her own daughter to prove how progressive she is.

Couldn't read it but going by the title, bullshit. Teenage girls are notoriously self conscious about their bodies. No decent mother would ever allow them to be fitted for a first bra by a man. Any women who did do that are an absolute disgrace