Muslim Man Threatens to Sue Driving School for Sending Transsexual Instructor to Teach His Wife

dailymail.co.uk ^ | May 21, 2008 | Chris Brooke

[Free ThinkerNY]

For the past 12 months, she had proudly taken to the road as part of an all-female driving school.

But Emma Sherdley is not exactly all woman.

Until a few years ago she was a married father-of-two called Andrew.

She is, though, in the middle of treatment to change gender and has the legal paperwork to prove it.

But that wasn't enough to satisfy one client who claimed he had been shortchanged when he booked a female instructor to teach his wife how to drive.

He phoned the Laugh 'n' Pass driving school threatening to sue after Miss Sherdley, 42, turned up for the lesson.

'You have sent me a man. Send me a proper female. How dare you send a man with a deep voice,' he told Joanne Dixon, who runs the school in West Yorkshire.

The man, a Muslim from the Meadowhall district of Sheffield who has not been named, claimed the company deliberately sent a man disguised as a woman.

'His attitude and behaviour was outrageous and has upset me and Emma and everyone else who works here,' Miss Dixon said.

'We are not racist. We are not sexist-If anyone was being so it was that man.'

She said no other learners had complained about being taught by Miss Sherdley, an experienced instructor.

As for Miss Sherdley, she is trying to develop a thicker skin.

She said the man's comments had been 'hurtful, offensive and deeply upsetting' and had even made her think of quitting her job.

His wife had apparently cut their two-hour lesson short after an hour, claiming she had to go home to breastfeed her baby.

Miss Sherdley said: 'I always knew as a child that I was a woman stuck in a man's body.

'I tried hard to be a man, getting married and having children but it never worked and never would.

'For the past six years I have been what is correctly called "transitioned". I still have to undergo final surgery but legally I am a woman.

That is what my birth certificate says and that is what the gender recognition certificate proves. For that prejudiced and biased man to threaten to sue me and the driving school is totally and utterly wrong.'

There are currently 32 female pupils on the books at the school. Miss Dixon employs 20 female instructors who teach learners throughout Yorkshire.

The school, which has been running for ten years, boasts a high pass rate.

'We say each of our female instructors promise to be friendly, professional and patient - that is exactly what Emma is,' Miss Dixon said.

'For her to be subjected to abuse and threats is simply intolerable.'

[Free ThinkerNY]

Not what they expected: Driving instructor Emma Sherdley For the past 12 months, she has proudly taken to the road as part of an all-female driving school.

[editor-surveyor]

“She” has legs like Mark Gastineau.

[unkus]

LOL-Well, go back to the Big Sandy Cat Box, then.

[A message]

There’s butt ugly and then there’s that. What ever it is.

[frankjr]

I’d hit it.

[pnh102]

Good grief... why not just find another driving school?

[Richard Kimball]

That is one sad, sick, mutilated man.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Bless you....

This is the laugh I’ve been in need of all day...

[Free ThinkerNY]

With what?

[unkus]

“I’d hit it.”

You still at Happy Hour?

[Revolting cat!]

Sherdley, Shirley, that’s a man bay-bee!

[Alouette]

That is one butt-ugly person.

[swmobuffalo]

FYI

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2018936/posts

[Revolting cat!]

(Do I have to say it?!)

[Richard Kimball]

Let's not make fun of Ms. Garrison, mmmmmmmKay?

[scrabblehack]

Laugh ‘n’ Pass driving school...it sounds like something out of an episode of the Avengers...

Hmm...if it were Pass ‘n’ Laugh, I could see it...a man pretends to be a woman, passes by, and if he’s lucky, nobody laughs.

The other inspiration I can see...they get a lot of business from the traffic court. The court calls them up and says they’re sending over some students. They hang up, and then let out a big laugh. When the students come, they wink-wink and pass them.

The closest thing to it was a place where I used to get my car inspected. If you could drive it up and give them $10, they’d give you an inspection sticker.

[Doogle]

"*LOL*...wait,wait...and then he say's...wait..*LOL*.. do you want to.....*LOL*...oh I can't go on I'm gonna wet the carpet, quick put me in the yard,I gotta go"

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Nobody’s mentioning that these folks all drive on the wrong side of the road, on top of everything else! Well, figuratively speaking, at least.

[Jess Kitting]

Muslim Man Threatens to Sue Driving School for Sending Transsexual Instructor to Teach His Wife

So Muslims have rights that the rest of us don't have?

If I objected to a transsexual teaching someone from my family, I would be called bigoted, sexist, traditionalist, original-partist, whatever. The transsexual would probably be suing me, but I guess in this case, religion (this one in particular) trumps everything else.

Watch out gays, lesbians, feminists, atheists: you could be next!

[DouglasKC]

I’m with the Muslims on this one. It’s supposed to be all female. A man dressed like a woman who thinks he’s a female isn’t a female.

[MinuteGal]

I think I'll nominate this bedraggled-looking wo-man for the "What Not To Wear" TV program.

It would make for a sensational show....a fascinating first for Stacy, Clinton, Nick and Carmindy.

She could be transformed into a knockout....which is unfortunately what will happen to her one of these days if the wrong student gets her as a teacher.

Leni

[GladesGuru]

“Good grief... why not just find another driving school?”

Perhaps it is because he is a Palisimian looking for a reason to sue? All for the sake of Allah and his MoHAMmed profit?

No, that was not a typo.

;-)

[HoosierHawk]

I always considered the Islamo-fascists in league with the leftists-fascists. It appears they have their differences too.

[12Gauge687]

OK, here’s the plan: Anytime a muzzie wants something, we send the transexual, preferably with a dog, after (s)he has had some ribs with a nice red wine. We’ll drive them so nuts they’ll want to leave Britain voluntarily.

[Levante]

“I’d hit it.”

With a 2x4, right... right?

[Rome2000]

WOW!!!!

The opposite of Viagra, no prescription required.

[keats5]

I don’t get it.

If he wants to look like a woman, why does he look like that?

[supremedoctrine]

I had a hunch that someday I’d come upon a thread where a select gathering of FReepers managed to somehow come out on the side of an idiot Muslim, even if only by default.
Congrats to all of ya.

[tbw2]

Muslim versus transgendered female ... pass the popcorn and see who comes out with the best lawyers or better rights.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Arrgh, my eyes. How will I sleep tonight with that seared into my brain??

[pray4liberty]

Truth is definitely stranger than fiction.

[yldstrk]

yeah i’d be plenty antsy and I ain’t muslim. Look, the muslim lady coulda walked away. It’s her money.

[P H Lewis]

Hey, in terms of human history, it wasn’t that long ago when a lot of those Muslim rulers used to have eunuchs to guard their harems. Maybe the muslim guy needs to just think of the ‘transitioning’ instructor as a ‘pre-eunuch.’

Did you hear the one about the lady who took driving lessons from a eunuch? She was disappointed because the instructor couldn’t shift the car out of neuter-al.*bada bing!*

[trumandogz]

I will take Cognitive Dissonance for $500, Alex!

[TheThinker]

How dare you send a man with a deep voice

There's a joke here somewhere. I just know it.

[Lancey Howard]

LMAO! You can’t make this stuff up.

[Rastus]

'For the past six years I have been what is correctly called "transitioned". I still have to undergo final surgery but legally I am a woman.

That is what my birth certificate says and that is what the gender recognition certificate proves.

Unfortunately, if we test your chromosomes, you're still a man.

[metmom]

Miss Sherdley said: 'I always knew as a child that I was a woman stuck in a man's body.

'I tried hard to be a man, getting married and having children but it never worked and never would.

So much material, so little time.

Of course it worked. He fathered two children.

[metmom]

I had a hunch that someday I’d come upon a thread where a select gathering of FReepers managed to somehow come out on the side of an idiot Muslim, even if only by default. Congrats to all of ya.

It is only by default.

What choice is there? You'd expect us to come out in favor of "it"?

[metmom]

Bleeding eyes alert ping.

[OldEagle]

After examining the evidence, I believe the Muslim man has a case.

[WOBBLY BOB]

looks like Helen Thomas’s sister.

[stevio]

When liberal worlds collide. BTW, that’s beyond fugly.

[Slings and Arrows]

I think the title speaks for itself.

[Abathar]

Looking at that picture all I hear is the theme music from Benny Hill playing in my head...

[Squawk 8888]

Does nobody else see the irony of people who operate an outfit that bills itself as all-female accusing someone ELSE of being sexist?

[fella]

This reminds me of a certain “Southpark” episode.

[joebuck]

"His wife had apparently cut their two-hour lesson short after an hour, claiming she had to go home to breastfeed her baby."

I never would have gotten in the car with it in the first place.

[Titan Magroyne]

Muslim Man Threatens to Sue Driving School for Sending Transsexual Instructor to Teach His Wife

Meanwhile, liberal heads everywhere explode trying to figure out which side of this fight to support.

[Slings and Arrows]

Hmmm...Operation Chaos-U.K.?