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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No, no. I think that s/he is managing that one pretty well on his/her own.
You know this, and I know this, but the American people are unconvinced.
It made its own argument when it stated that it was awaiting surgery to change REPRODUCTIVE organs from male to female.
Admitting that the purpose of a man AND woman is to reproduce invalidates it’s defense of wanting to be called a female as it is physically impossible as it will never be able to bear children. When sperms can be produced or has ever been produced, you are a male. When eggs are produced or you were born with the equipment to bear children, you are female.
The defense rests.
inboard vs outboard.
You’re right, but still, he has a penis....men’s bathroom, no debate.
“Dundee check” FAIL.
He can call itself a Christian but I doubt the sincerity of his belief, but that is between God and him. For now he stays in the men’s room.
most if not all die before puberty.
Your personal journey to "devastated" was complete well before you tried to inflict your perversion on Hobby Lobby shoppers.
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Oh, yeah. If he gets legal permission to use the ladies’ room before surgery, next he will sue to have a urinal installed so he can lift up his dress and whiz in front of women customers.
I read these articles and I am compelled to consider the stability of such individuals in proximity to those I protect during a true crisis or SHTF scenario.
Imagine a few weeks into a true societal breakdown where they no longer have access to the necessary chemicals/hormones required to sustain the illusion they have embraced as a self-image. Think about the psychological unravalling of their mind as these illusions are slowly stripped away by reality and their natural DNA exerts itself over the medically induced lie.
Would you want to have your loved ones near such an individual then? Would you want them in or near your shelter? Would you be willing to share medical supplies such as hormones with them to sustain their self deceit? Would you be willing to tolerate their hormonally driven emotional outbursts that could easily escalate into unnecessary violence as it does under normal circumstances?
Anyone who has spent 20 or 30 years with a spouse likely has a keen awareness of the powerful emotions that can be driven by hormonal changes. Under normal circumstances it can be a delicate situation. With a psyche as fragile and volatile as a self mutilating transgender, it's an unacceptable risk under the best of circumstances.
“X” + “X” = girl
“X” + “Y” = boy
It ain’t rocket science.
Yes, the American people are to uninformed to know that they are just inmates in an asylum.
This is going to backfire on the left when some pedo makes this claim and rapes a child in a public restroom. This invites all kinds of trouble. These freaks never stop to think of the consequences of their behavior.
That’s a good point. They will be pretty screwed up when everything goes back the way its suppose to be emotionally won’t they...
But you're not like all the other women.
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