Posted on 05/13/2023 1:06:27 PM PDT by Morgana
A Florida pro-transgender activist is demanding an apology from southern grocery chain Publix after a bakery worker refused to put 'trans people deserve joy' in icing on a cake.
Yasmin Flasterstein, 28, was purchasing the cake as part of her work with an Orlando non-profit organization called Peer Support Space, which helps vulnerable people with mental illness, trauma and other problems.
In late April, she was working on a membership drive to produce care packages for transgender people and wanted to add a cake to celebrate as part of campaign called 'Spread Trans Joy.'
She went to a Publix location on Colonial Drive in Orlando and asked for it to say 'trans people deserve joy' when Flasterstein said she got a confused look from the bakery worker.
Flasterstein - who is not transgender but co-founded Peer Support Space with a trans friend - claims she received a cake that only said 'people deserve joy' and asked to speak to the manager.
'They could not write that 'trans people deserve joy' on the cake because it would be taking a stance and that Publix isn't allowed to take a stance on the issue,' she told Orlando Weekly.
She argued that refusing to write the word trans on cake was telling them 'they're not worthy of joy' and was a stance.
Flasterstein claimed that the manager of the bakery appeared 'on the brink of crying,' offering her space at the top of the cake and icing so she could write it herself.
After writing about the incident on Facebook, she received responses in the comments from Publix's Facebook account.
'We are sorry that our associates did not handle your request appropriately. Please message us for more details, and we will gladly make the cake,' the account wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“They learned from AB”
Um ... no ... they didn’t:
“’Please message us for more details, and WE WILL GLADLY MAKE THE CAKE,’ the account wrote.”
Too late now the event is over
STFU Yasmin.
I want a cake. I want the baker to write on it “Cis, and proud of it.” Will the baker and I be thrown in jail for a “hate crime”?
Would they let me order a cake withe words F Joe Biden fully spelled out
The word “Cis” really offends me! Can’t you use words like “strait” or “Heterosexual” or even “not a freak”..words that offend them?
If they had any integrity at all, they would BAN her from all their stores for life.
Immoral cretins only deserve shunning.
Good for PUBLIX! They’re a great store.
ALL Lives Matter!!
One of the things I miss about Florida, their Deli was the best.
Well said.
Indeed, and they should!
Publix is a great store. I might ask the local bakery to write: Trans are MENTALLY ILL on a cake...🤓
Never mind that.
What would they say if you wanted male genitals on the cake?
Who would support that?
Who actually thinks that’s ok and that a bakery should have to make it?
Exactly.
Sick of hearing these whines and screams of offense.
Why do we get more accurate and complete news from teh British press than from most American outlets?
Actually, they caved and apologized.
One of the biggest supporters of #AmericasGovernor.
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