Tommy Dorfman in misgendering row with Delta enployee

We need the video of that!

This is from Nitter so you don’t need an account to read all the comments.

(I use Nitter when I want to read comments from X - it was as PP have said when searching Tommy Dorfman, top comments are all supportive of Delta. Amazing indeed 🤩)

https://nitter.net/CollinRugg/status/1740433174596026741#m

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NEW: The Delta employee who "misgendered" trans influencer Tommy Dorfman did end up calling the police after threatening to have him escorted out of the airport.

This keeps getting better.

Dorfman confirmed in a TikTok comment that the Delta employee followed through with his promise.

"The man actually called port authority. Two police officers actually showed up ~10 min later and spoke to me and my partner about the incident," Dorfman whined.

Amazing.

Misgendered but correctly sexed. That Delta employee handled the whiny, entitled bloke brilliantly.

Refreshing to see that commenters on the Reddit forum for Delta are almost entirely in support of the employee: https://old.reddit.com/r/delta/comments/18s9is6/delta_lga_gate_agent_lays_down_some_facts

Some of the comments:

"My gosh can you imagine these gate agents having to deal with this absolute bullshit and nonsense every day? I feel for them."

"Very professional and not taking the bait. Give that man a raise."

"The guy recording is the one who uploaded a video teaching kids how to inject hormones."

"Well done on that employee! Misgendered?! Go find another hobby."

"Love how he wised up real fast once the gate agent reminded him he’s not behind a keyboard right this very moment."

"Appoint him as head of the DEI department."

"Seems like a fight or flight situation."

I'm more of a Twitter user than Insta but have just popped over to like the positive comments and to add one of my own.

I really hope that this is a tipping point where employers in retail and service industries start standing by their employees when the pronoun brigade film them and/or complain about being misgendered or not being allowed to use women's facilities.

Even if businesses only do it for commercial reasons, they must be starting to realise that most of the public sympathise with the abused employees.

I apologise for that joke already.

The delta employee is a red coat.

They say Butlins is an excellent training ground.

ALL the messages on deltas latest insta post are supporting the employee. We’ve really all had enough of this shit

Oh really? The employee was very good and professional, so that makes sense. Delta have a good one there, I hope they appreciate him!

The delta employee is a red coat. Which apparently are delta employees who specifically deal with difficult customers. He's trained for this shit and he does it well. Probably just an average Wednesday for him.

How embarrassing for the entitled trans identified bloke.

NparticularlySFW:

https://twitter.com/Sorelle_Arduino/status/1740018054007083506

Article is inaccurate, it says:

The Delta employee remains unfazed and replies that his use of pronouns was on purpose: 'It was intentional, but if you want to take it personal. That's OK.'

But the video shows that the employee said: "Wasn't intentional, but if you want to take it personal, that's OK."

Stupid prick.

Yes. The narcissism is extreme if he thinks the video makes the member of staff look bad!

Absolutely this

I just can't fathom the level of delusion it took to make him voluntarily put this on the internet.

There does seem to be a pattern here- males with privilege vs retail staff, door staff etc.

Its very much class/status based bullying.

(Even though TRas hate punching down so much 🙄obviously )

I like that American online commentary on this issue seems to be acknowledging the social class aspect of it.

There's also the aspect with TRA's that there's a certain narcissistic type of personality who gets a thrill from being an arse to service staff because they know full well that the staff member is (often) at the mercy of a large company's desire to please the customer at any cost. Any of us who've worked in shops/bars/cafes will recognise it and remember the inner seething as the manager falls over backwards to appease some nonsense.

And a non sex specific word will be used by everyone apart from the tiresome ones. It's like how the word actor is now used by everyone apart from males identifying as women, who demand that they alone are referred to as actress.

The Delta employee handled this with such grace.
TD put the film up on x to gain sympathy but instead has made an absolute fool of himself. Which is wonderful to see.

I’d like to shake the airport workers hand. He handled that extremely well.