Posted on 09/05/2018 6:56:12 AM PDT by simpson96
A transgender woman’s bank account was frozen after a phone banking system identified her voice as a man’s. Distraught Sophia Reis, 47,(snip)
Miss Reis, who moved to Nottingham 18 years ago, said she informed Santander last November that she would no longer be named Sergio on the account.
She said the bank changed her details and her new identity was registered, but on Thursday, August 30, she went through a traumatic ordeal with Santander’s phone banking staff.
She did not pass the security check and was not allowed to transfer £72 to a friend on her debit card.
The next day the bank froze her account and she could not pay for items in Tesco. The customer service advisor, who used to work behind the bar at NG1, said: ‘The embarrassment and humiliation I felt was unbelievable.
‘I went into the bank in Clumber Street and said “you have got all my documentation and I changed my name on November 11”.
‘They said “my voice did not match my profile because it sounded like a man on the phone and not a woman”. The whole situation is inadmissible.
‘I was crying my eyes out and I am not that type of person at all. I am a very courteous person and I am outgoing but to feel that way when all I asked was for my money to be transferred…I feel mistreated.’
She said that despite informing the phone banking staff that she was a transgender woman, they did not pay attention.(snip)
‘I work as a woman, I identify myself as a woman and I look good as a woman but for the first time in my life I felt embarrassed about being who I am.'
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
I am absolutely tired of this insanity.
Sounded like a man because it is.
The reason he sounded like a man on the phone is because he is a man..... ok... maybe not a man,... he is a male.
Imagine that.
>> I identify myself as a woman <<
Call me old fashioned, but I identify you as a pervert.
Mental illness here.
Wonder what kind of number his parent(s) did on him?
Or, was he the obnoxious attention grabber growing up who enjoyed shocking his family and neighbors?
Even the most convincing “male-to-female” impersonators sound like a very feminized male, at best. 99.9% of them sound like men. (See Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner.)
Funny how physiology refuses to lie.
” She sounds hideous”.
Of course he sounds like a man. What did they expect?
Oh, the horrors! OH! THE INDIGNITY!
He will certainly need therapy due to these unimaginable slights! Precious baby!
“...a phone banking system identified her voice as a man’s...”
Welllll, that’s because............
Big lawsuit in the works!
‘I work as a woman, I identify myself as a woman and I look good as a woman but for the first time in my life I felt embarrassed about being who I am.’
You should get a job on Fantasy Island, because that is the only place you look good.
That and in a 3 mile deep cave with no lighting...
Besides, what are you doing banking with Santander anyway.
You must be a high risk and they didn’t get a close enough look at you.
Well I’m not dumb but I can’t understand how she walked like a woman but talked like a man, oh my Lola
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