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There's nothing I can do about this, is there?

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Acunningruse · 11/04/2024 18:57

Visited a different city today for work and went to a branch of Caffè Nero. I was served by what was very clearly a man, despite his attempt to look female and the fact he was wearing a she/her badge. Said man was wearing extremely tight leggings which, as he was wearing a waist-length t-shirt, meant his manhood was obviously visible. His appearance was a source of mumbling/muttering in the queue and he seemed to be enjoying the attention with a lot of hair-flicking.

I m not able to articulate why this made me so uncomfortable- other than the fact that no way in hell would I want to share a bathroom or changing room with this person.

But there's nothing at all to be done, is there? As any objection would surely be met with accusations of "discrimination " and "be kind".

Just so so frustrating. I just wanted to scream "you are not a woman!!!!" But I can't, can I.

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Cazpar · 26/04/2024 11:44

CocoapuffPuff · 26/04/2024 11:43

Goodness, you're being very silly.

Says the person who thinks there's no difference between a barista and a funeral director and who apparently can't grasp the idea that work dress codes exist and differ between employers and professions?

CocoapuffPuff · 26/04/2024 11:43

Cazpar · 26/04/2024 11:31

What's the difference, really, between that and a cafe worker?

Are you genuinely, seriously, in good faith, asking whether there's a difference between a server in a cafe and a funeral director?

Goodness, you're being very silly.

Cazpar · 26/04/2024 11:42

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 26/04/2024 11:35

The faux obtuseness is embarrassing.

I agree, suggesting that someone who works in a place where the code leans to office wear can go in dressed in a t-shirt and leggings because trans, and the idea that a barista has the same dress code as a funeral director is very obtuse.

Dineasair · 26/04/2024 11:37

Goldfishonabike · 26/04/2024 07:04

Lol, I’m not in the business of denying that there are certain current culturally established norms, such as some clothes is seen as masculine and some as feminine. What I’m saying is, some people are working to change these norms, transgender people among them.

so bass on your experience with your teenage kids, is a your perception that transgender is a thing of the past now? In this case, what’s anyone worried about ; ) jokes aside, that’s not my impression. I don’t know wheee you live but these trends are different to different
locations. I also think that the shortlived spike of transgender being really hot is going away now, but Im not under the impression transgender is going away, it’s more that it’s perhaps stabilizing at a level where only people who truly
feel this way embrace it, not every other teenager who wants to be trendy. But hopefully the tolerance level of the overall teenage population towards transgender people have gone up as a result of the short lived former trend.

I wouldn’t bet on it, as I said in a previous post elsewhere, generation Alpha are at the sharp end of this, and they are sick to the back teeth of it. It’s not just the fact that the light of the Cass Report being shone on the harms being done, it’s the fact that it is a fad that is now being rejected, it will become seriously uncool with this generation. That, coupled with the fact that the vast majority, even of students going through uni at the moment, didn’t believe any of it to start with will help.

The further revelations to come through the thousands of detransitioners worldwide will dismantle the rest of the claims that transitioning is always a good thing. Nobody wants to be seen as supporting something that is so harmful to children. My heart goes out to Jazz Jennings, the American child whose abusive “treatment” was televised, at least that poor child’s suffering has been recorded for posterity and stands as testimony to the harms this “treatment” can often cause.

Eventually the insurance companies for the medical professionals that are doing this will consider it too high risk and will stop covering medics involved in it. I can see the GRA, if not being revoked, at least being amended and restricted to only those who have fully transitioned, and only in limited circumstances as the rights of natal females to single sex provision will be further enhanced. This won’t happen until after the investigations which I don’t think the Government will be able to avoid, I don’t think that they will have any other option eventually.

That’s the thing with reality, it always wins in the end, lies can only exist where they can’t be challenged and JK defanged the Hate Crime Laws on the first day, with her challenge to the Scottish Police. We can call a tran woman a man and they can’t arrest us for that. Sorry to disillusion you, but Scottish women won’t wheesht and nobody can make us.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 26/04/2024 11:35

The faux obtuseness is embarrassing.

Cazpar · 26/04/2024 11:33

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 26/04/2024 11:08

And if his employer doesn't send him home that then means it's perfectly ok. Or something.

Well if it meets the dress code then yes it is OK. However PP seemed to be very clear that the dress code in that workplace leant towards office wear however, so I suspect they haven't thought it through.

Cazpar · 26/04/2024 11:31

What's the difference, really, between that and a cafe worker?

Are you genuinely, seriously, in good faith, asking whether there's a difference between a server in a cafe and a funeral director?

CocoapuffPuff · 26/04/2024 11:11

Are manners and consideration for others such an outdated concept now?
Is farting loudly in a restaurant socially acceptable? Taking off your shoes and picking loose skin off your feet at your desk okay? Blowing your nose on curtains? Taking your trousers down and scratching itchy bits whilst chatting to your boss? Thin leggings showing cock and balls as a funeral director are fine, are they? No? What's the difference, really, between that and a cafe worker?

Acunningruse · 26/04/2024 11:10

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 26/04/2024 09:46

It's interesting how many organisations will fall over themselves to accommodate the feelings and boundaries of a what's apparently a vanishingly tiny proportion of the population. Time and money needed for this is no object.

The feelings and boundaries of a woman who has been made to feel uncomfortable aren't as important.

That's what's happening here.

Exactly this.

Anyway, I have sent the following:

"Thank you for your response. Unfortunately the issues I experienced were still the case when I visited this branch again yesterday. Please could you clarify what your staff uniform policy is, and whether grey sports-style leggings which reveal genitalia, conform to the uniform policy? "

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AccidentallyWesAnderson · 26/04/2024 11:08

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 26/04/2024 11:04

My husband has a rare day in the office next week. Since Covid dress code is more relaxed but definitely still leans to "office wear".

Maybe he could don a cute T shirt and some nice tight leggings that show his meat n two veg off. Live and let live and all. When he stops by the desks of seated female colleagues for a quick chat he absolutely shouldn't worry about the fact his penis is pretty much in their face. After all he's just living authentically.

But then he won't do that because he's not a boundary trampling wanker and would never dream of putting his personal need for self expression above the comfort of anyone, especially women.

And if his employer doesn't send him home that then means it's perfectly ok. Or something.

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 26/04/2024 11:04

My husband has a rare day in the office next week. Since Covid dress code is more relaxed but definitely still leans to "office wear".

Maybe he could don a cute T shirt and some nice tight leggings that show his meat n two veg off. Live and let live and all. When he stops by the desks of seated female colleagues for a quick chat he absolutely shouldn't worry about the fact his penis is pretty much in their face. After all he's just living authentically.

But then he won't do that because he's not a boundary trampling wanker and would never dream of putting his personal need for self expression above the comfort of anyone, especially women.

CocoapuffPuff · 26/04/2024 10:49

The "time and place' factor appears to be passing some people by.

Maybe it just isn't taught any more. Some social "rules" exist for bloody good reasons.

katebushh · 26/04/2024 10:29

Sorry for typos BlushBlush

katebushh · 26/04/2024 10:28

The fact that he was clearly enjoying the attention would be made me adamant to not give him the satisfaction of thinking I'd noticed!

I'd keep my eyes firmly at eye level.

Tbh I really dislike low cut big boob cleavage revealing situations too but that may be because I have a very ugly open heart surgery scar where mine is.

MarkWithaC · 26/04/2024 09:52

Cazpar · 26/04/2024 09:42

No they don't. If an employee is not meeting the dress code they should be pulled up on it.

I can only echo what others have just come on to say.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 26/04/2024 09:50

Men's rights and feelings prioritised over women's. Not a new thing and more depressingly the amount of women propping this up.

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 26/04/2024 09:46

It's interesting how many organisations will fall over themselves to accommodate the feelings and boundaries of a what's apparently a vanishingly tiny proportion of the population. Time and money needed for this is no object.

The feelings and boundaries of a woman who has been made to feel uncomfortable aren't as important.

That's what's happening here.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 26/04/2024 09:46

Like a PP said, 'protected caste' nails it.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 26/04/2024 09:43

Not familiar with rabid trans activism no?

Cazpar · 26/04/2024 09:42

MarkWithaC · 26/04/2024 09:39

Presumably they have to tread quite carefully, as Accidentally says.

No they don't. If an employee is not meeting the dress code they should be pulled up on it.

MarkWithaC · 26/04/2024 09:39

Cazpar · 26/04/2024 09:36

Who hadn't sent the employee home to change, given that OP said he was in the same kind of attire.

Presumably they have to tread quite carefully, as Accidentally says.

Cazpar · 26/04/2024 09:36

MarkWithaC · 26/04/2024 09:35

Oh, and the person posted to the branch to 'observe' the guy in leggings in response.

Who hadn't sent the employee home to change, given that OP said he was in the same kind of attire.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 26/04/2024 09:35

If this individual is not being pulled up about dressing inappropriately in the workplace, I'd bet his employer is probably scared of being labelled a big transphobe by the usual hard of thinking zealots.

MarkWithaC · 26/04/2024 09:35

MarkWithaC · 26/04/2024 09:34

Going by the response the OP had to her email, they weren't happy.

Oh, and the person posted to the branch to 'observe' the guy in leggings in response.

MarkWithaC · 26/04/2024 09:34

Cazpar · 26/04/2024 09:31

As I said: "If his employer is happy with how he's dressing..."

Going by the response the OP had to her email, they weren't happy.

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