Posted on 02/10/2014 12:02:28 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
In an inevitable development, a former employee who identifies as neither male nor female is suing a catering company because co-workers continually referred to the individual as a female.
According to the lawsuit, a person named Valeria Jones explained that Jones “was not a female or a male and that the term was unwelcome,” The Oregonian reported.
Instead, Jones asked to be addressed by an unknown gender-neutral pronoun.
In spite of the request, co-workers used terms such as “miss,” “lady” and “little lady” when referring to Jones, insisting Jones looked like a woman. The article did not specify Jones’ designated sex at birth.
When hired by Bon Appetit Management Co., Jones left blank the gender question on the job application and was not questioned by management, according to the lawsuit.
Jones is asking for $18,682 in lost wages and benefits, and another $500,000 for humiliation and suffering, including times when the “plaintiff cried regularly at work and at home,” the lawsuit said.
Bon Appetit did not comment on the pending litigation, but Vice President Maisie Ganzler told The Oregonian, “I can say we are an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity of all kinds.”
It’s easy to see the difficult challenge employers face.
In the ever-confusing gay community, individuals like Jones are referred to as gender-nonconforming people, but the term “gender identity” is so ambiguous that it’s rendered useless.
According to World Net Daily, the city of Gainesville, Fla., for example, describes gender identity as:
“An inner sense of being a specific gender, or the expression of a gender identity by verbal statement, appearance, or mannerisms, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual with or without regard to the individual’s designated sex at birth.”
The phrase “by verbal statement” pretty much leaves it up to the whims of the individual, tremendously burdening businesses.
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According to a different source,
I'm so offended, I may just want to sue myself.
Id it has genitals it is not gender neutral!
Just refer to them all as ‘it.”
If you think all these homo lawsuits are getting to be a PITA, wait until the idiots up in the District of Corruption pass amnesty. We ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
People and companies have no responsibility to make you feel better for your personal decisions.
I was hoping there’d be pictures....
Just refer to everyone as an IT then and we’ll be covered, right?
Or, slap these idiots upside the head and ignore them. Cripes sake...
there will come a time.....at the rate we’re hurtling toward the twilight zone...that we wont be allowed to DIscuss what Gender is... or possibly even use the TERM in public or on the internet.
Why not treat everyone like a robot then????
Of course then they will whine we are treating everyone like a robot....
Just like the average Islamist they are never happy and always rioting....
These ‘gender-neutral’ people are beyond sick.
What a screwed up world we’re living in.
“It.”
LOL! That is exactly what came to mind for me as well!
You can’t make this stuff up.
I wonder what their significant other, “Chris” thinks about this?
Yeah... the article says “this presents a challenge to the empoyers”
No, not really.
Sometimes welfare, disability, food stamps and/or unemployment is just not enough.
I wonder if one can assume one gender at odd hours, and another at even ones, and then sue if your employer can’t sort it out.
Your gender is not “designated” at birth. It’s not a Coin Flip.
It’s a great scam. No matter what the employer says or does, it’s always wrong and the “victim” is always due a payoff. Al Capone is spinning in his grave because he’s an amateur by comparison.
People are free to call themselves whatever they wish.
And I am free to call them whatever I wish.
And they are free not to associate with me, including quitting the job I’m providing them.
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