Posted on 07/15/2014 4:22:42 AM PDT by massmike
AURORA, Ill. A Hobby Lobby store in Illinois is facing a discrimination complaint after a transgender employee was told that he may not use the womens restroom until he has reconstructive surgery to switch from male to female reproductive organs.
The employee, who goes by the name Meggan Sommerville, also professes to be a Christian. He has worked for Hobby Lobby since 1998, at which time he identified as male.However, in 2009, Sommerville began transitioning to look like a woman and changed his name. According to Sommerville, Hobby Lobby accommodated him by changing his gender in the company records and providing a name tag with his new name. He also states that company insurance covered part of his treatment, such as hormone therapy.
But Hobby Lobby drew the line when Sommerville began using the womens restroom. Representatives at the Aurora location reportedly told Sommerville that he must use the mens restroom until he has reconstructive surgery to obtain female genitalia.
I was devastated, Sommerville told the Huffington Post. I just want to be treated like all the other women. To do anything else diminishes who I am in the eyes of customers and employees.
Therefore, in 2011, he filed a complaint with the Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR), alleging discrimination in employment and public accommodation. The case was thrown out in 2012 due to a lack of evidence, but was later overturned and the matter is currently pending before the IDHR.
Hobby Lobby is not commenting on the matter since it is pending, but others have expressed concern that homosexual and transgender groups may now seek to revoke the religious rights of companies like Hobby Lobby following its recent win in the Supreme Court.
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Just change the signs on the restroom doors:
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- Restroom allocation done by genetic makeup.
Also provide a single restroom in a central area - open use.
“The chromosomes which determine our gender cannot be altered.”
It makes you wonder about the ethics of the doctors who carve these people up to “change” their sex.
I thought science deniers were to be attacked at every turn. It must make a difference when they are attacking the target of the day....
Yes, and the political climate of today wants us all to pretend that they’re perfectly normal when it’s obvious that they are emotionally unhinged and deeply troubled. They’re not getting the help they need with the false congratulations we’re supposed to give them. I’m not saying lock them up, but I’m also not saying put them on a pedestal.
I agree. A compassionate and caring society would commit them to seek help through counseling and rehabilitation back into society. It's the inhumanity of the left that empowers them to pursue their personal descent into madness and even worse, inflict it upon innocents.
Chemistry and cutlery....neither can change gender.
Why can’t female employees sue the transgender for sexual intimidation and harassment? Or do we need to go to unisex bathrooms to please 0.5% of the population?
and so it starts, the attack of all sorts on Hobby Lobby
When you join a corporation, you agree to its rules.
I was devastated, LOL.
The guy doesn’t want his penis because he wants to be a woman which he was not born as and thinks he should use the womens bathroom much to the annoyance of other women and due to him being inconsiderate .
Yes, indeed.
It also demonstrates that Liberal activists have stores like Hobby Lobby and Chick fil A pretty well infiltrated. This guy’s clearly been pushing them, step by methodical step, to see where their tolerance limit is.
That’s probably where companies are going to have to go: no more communal restrooms but rather a bank of individual gender-neutral ones. Think multiple “family restrooms,” which are increasingly popular.
It’s more like 0.3% but the media would have us think that they make up 10% of the population.
What are the odds of meeting a transgender/transsexual? In my 38 years I’ve come across ONE and that was in the Bahamas. I went there on a cruise with my sister and our mother in 2006 and the three of us looked at each other with a “What the f**k?” expression on our faces when we saw this person in a restaurant.
Have you seen the 60s TV show “Combat!”?
It’s a great show,isn’t it? I LOVE Vic Morrow as Sgt. Saunders. He was a great actor.
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