Natalie Johnson, the now former San Antonio Texas Macy’s employee, is looking for a new job today because she just could not accept that a transgender girl was allowed by her employer to shop, and *gasp* change in the women’s section.
The 27 year old Ms. Johnson harassed a transgender girl who was clothes shopping on November 30th, insisting that she needed to keep an eye on “him” (her word) coming up to her when she was heading into the dressing room and stating “You’re a man”. The people with the transgender girl supported her telling the employee that Macy’s policy is to allow transgender people to use the dressing rooms of the gender they consider themselves to be.
Ms. Johnson told Macy’s she refuses to comply with the policy, and Macy’s promptly fired her, and now she has filed a complaint with the federal employment commission on the grounds that her religion doesn’t allow her to recognize transgender people.
I seriously doubt her religion covers allowing a person to use a a male or female dressing room at her place of work.
Many don’t think of the term tranny as an offensive or derogatory word, but as Neil Patrick Harris found out after using the term on live national television, many who’ve experienced having that word thrown at them as an attack word consider it an outright slur.
During his guest hosting stint on Live! With Kelly Harris and Kelly were using sulfur hexafluoride, which like helium effects your voice in this case deepening it, after joking around with Kelly saying things like “Put the lotion in the basket!” Harris stated “I’ve never sounded more like a tranny in my life.” It was a casual comment and he clearly didn’t mean to target the transgender community in a negative way, but still that word like shemale carries weight for a lot of people, and on Harris’ part he was extremely quick to apologize, albeit on his Twitter account.
Of course the various Gay and Transgender community groups were cool with the apology ’cause everyone loves Neil Patrick Harris.
