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Salon Owner Bans Transgender and Other Gender Identities
And so it begins …
I told you so. Some of you didn’t believe me. But it has happened just like I said it would.
The owner of a hair salon in Michigan (which has an anti-discrimination state law) is refusing to serve certain members of the gay community.
She doesn’t even have a good excuse. Just that she doesn’t want to play “the pronoun game” so she says that she is exercising her First Amendment free speech rights and refusing to serve transgender or other gender identifying customers. The TQ+ of LGBTQ+.
This is exactly what she said and exactly why we need public accommodation laws:
“If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman, please seek services at a local pet groomer. You are not welcome at this salon. Period.”
I can’t decide if I should be irate or just suggest that someone call animal control and have her thrown into a concrete cell at the local animal shelter.
With a couple of pit bulls. Make that transgender pit bulls.
This is the result of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the right of a narrow-minded website designer who didn’t want to be forced by Colorado’s public accommodation law to…
