'England. Almost 80 percent of her colleagues were male, and the culture was very "laddish," she said.
"All of the work parties were just, 'Let's go and get smashed on Stella [beer],' kind of thing," she said. "And I witnessed lots of homophobia toward another one of my colleagues."'
How was this workplace for women?
Were the women never invited to the drinks or did some of them drink Stella with the chaps (shocker)
If this person knew that the drinks were blokey then they must have gone at least once
If the blokes were excluding women/ being really sexist then what did this person try to do about it? Anything?
Ditto witnessing homophobic bullying. Should have talked to a manager or HR.
They left so never knew how it would have been taken. (Although may well have been right).
And the big one. The idea is that the only reason men would be awful to a trans woman at work, men who have form for being blokey, sexist (sounds like) and homophobic, because they've been listening to some women on the internet? That's ridiculous.
Note there is no mention of the women at work at all. Which is a bit of a gap.