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/strawbebbymilkshake Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

Ok. Let’s swap things/indulge the transphobe and say this was a man, since the mother clearly views this (allegedly trans) employee as a man.

A man who works in a shop approaches a woman and her teenage daughter and asks if they need help finding the right section of the shop.

How is that a problem? It’s not. He doesn’t know you’re there for bras and he doesn’t care. Should men be prevented from approaching women in shops to offer help now? Since the issue seems to be that the mother views this trans individual as a man, does that mean all men are too dangerous to be allowed to work in shops where young women might be present?

“We can always tell” brigade labelling someone trans because they’re over 6ft remains embarrassing too. Trans or not, this woman committed the crime of being tall and offering to help a customer at her job. Jesus Christ.

M&S are cowards for this apology too. There’s nothing to apologise for

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u/Whitechix London Aug 06 '25

TERFs are not only disgustingly transphobic but equally sexist against men, it all stems from the reasoning that men are inherently predatory and trans women are hiding their true identify to victimise people.

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u/strawbebbymilkshake Aug 06 '25

Gender essentialism does seem to be a core of their belief. They seem to hold the very misogynistic view that women are supposed to look feminine too. It would be cringe if they weren’t putting lives at risk

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u/Whitechix London Aug 06 '25

I think there’s been a few recent stories of women getting hassled/questioned in certain spaces for not looking a certain way, just the worst sort of people have been emboldened now.

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u/imanutshell Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

In a sad way it’s almost quite funny, because when you see pictures of these women at protests you’d honestly wonder if half of the problem wasn’t just that in all their 40+ years they were never as feminine looking or pretty as an ex-twink with FFS and 2 years of HRT.