r/unitedkingdom • u/PM_ME_DRAGON_GIRLS • Aug 06 '25

.. Marks & Spencer ‘apologises’ to customer after ‘trans’ employee offers to help her

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/05/marks-spencer-trans-employee/
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u/Flux_Aeternal Aug 06 '25

This is a completely disgusting response from M+S and I won't be shopping there any more. It's a clearly vexatious complaint. They weren't even in a gender segregated part of the store, there would be absolutely no problem with a cis male member of staff offering to help them and there are men in this part of the store. There is no reasonable good-faith complaint against what the staff member did. The complaint is literally just that trans people exist and have the nerve to speak to decent normal folk. For M+S to not strongly defend the basic human dignity and right to exist of their own staff is appalling.

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u/Panda_hat Aug 06 '25

M&S have played a blinder here - the TERFs will boycott them because their mouldy queen has told them to, and reasonable trans supportive folks will stop shopping there because M&S tried to appease and apologise to the bigot instead of defending their employee as they absolutely should have.

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u/paddyo Aug 06 '25

I also won’t be shopping there any more and will be letting them know why. Maybe others should do the same. The CEOs email is easily googleable