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Transgender model sues NYC agency for killing his career by claiming he was ‘insufficiently masculine’ to work in men’s fashion
nypost.com ^ | December 21, 2023 | Alyssa Guzman

Posted on 12/23/2023 4:34:56 AM PST by lowbridge

A transgender model is suing his New York-based modeling agency for discrimination, claiming it killed his career after he transitioned and branded him “insufficiently masculine” to work in men’s fashion.

Frances Coombe, 30, who is a Canadian catwalk model, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, claiming Muse Model Management NYC and its president Conor Kennedy had violated his civil rights protecting gender identity.

Coombe is requesting more than $300,000 in lost income and is seeking damages for emotional distress over the downfall of his reputation and career, the lawsuit said.

“It is no surprise that models evolve their looks, and I had been moving towards more androgyny for quite some time,” he told the Daily Beast in a statement.

The high fashion model said several other models — both male and female — at Muse Model Management had also been moving toward androgynous looks, but did not receive the same pushback.

Coombe, who has walked for the likes of Marc Jacobs and Gucci, said he told his agency that he no longer wanted to model as a female and requested to do male work, but Muse allegedly “refused” and “constructively terminated” his contract, according to the suit.

Around October 2021, Coombe — who identified as non-binary at the time — alleges that Kennedy told him they would still pitch him for women’s jobs as there was no such thing as genderless work in the industry.

“In modeling life, you will be ‘she’ and ‘her’ until you arrive on set, non-binary models are not sought after in the casting process. When you show up for a job you can tell them your pronouns then,” Coombes recalled Kennedy telling him. “We’ll be sending you to women’s wear jobs and you have to separate your private life from your work life.”

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KEYWORDS: shehe; shim; transgender
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To: Bigg Red

I’ve seen the ny post do worse than that in referring to Sam Britton (i think it was), a singular person, as “they”


21 posted on 12/23/2023 6:11:52 AM PST by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: lowbridge

Couldn’t get through whole article- started to 🤮. That is one very mentally ill person- mind you they are always just sane enough though to pursue money and lawsuits


22 posted on 12/23/2023 6:12:47 AM PST by dkGba
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To: lowbridge

the human race needs a good cleansing ...


23 posted on 12/23/2023 6:14:51 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: lowbridge

Perhaps because she is a failure at being a he, she should transition back to what she really is.


24 posted on 12/23/2023 6:25:53 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo ( )
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To: lowbridge

The real reason should be is that it’s ugly.


25 posted on 12/23/2023 6:30:25 AM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis)
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To: lowbridge

Just a SHE looking for trouble...


26 posted on 12/23/2023 6:46:28 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: lowbridge

She looks like the dude who neglected to read the warnings on the log splitter.


27 posted on 12/23/2023 6:52:38 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: lowbridge

Sad, it’s straight up nuts, and, she hit the wall and is no longer attractive


28 posted on 12/23/2023 7:21:25 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: lowbridge

Mentally ill ‘person’ needs treatment. Good from company to fire them, gives them more time to get treatment and turn their life around.


29 posted on 12/23/2023 7:27:10 AM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: moovova

My Chevy Silverado successfully identifies as a compact. I don’t encourage it but sometimes, well, it works.


30 posted on 12/23/2023 7:28:51 AM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: lowbridge

Well if you werent a fag you wouldnt be called insufficient.


31 posted on 12/23/2023 8:21:20 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: lowbridge

She could do an ad campaign to down sell Bud Light.


32 posted on 12/23/2023 8:21:44 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: lowbridge

Oh, that one drives me up the wall. And the usage is spreading rapidly. And it is not just used for perverts but also to avoid using gender-specific pronouns, for some reason. The morons use the plural “they” instead of “he” or “she.”


33 posted on 12/23/2023 8:22:17 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: lowbridge

I didn’t think it possible to be ‘insufficiently masculine’ to work in men’s fashion.


34 posted on 12/23/2023 8:22:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PGalt; Jane Long; Travis McGee

35 posted on 12/23/2023 8:35:29 AM PST by 4Liberty (🦅STAND🦅WITH🦅TRUMP🦅)
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To: Bigg Red

I’m so sorry. It’s just getting a little confusing with 60+ genders to deal with


36 posted on 12/23/2023 9:08:36 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: lowbridge
Before and after:


37 posted on 12/23/2023 9:30:06 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: 2nd Amendment

I hear ya’!


38 posted on 12/23/2023 11:09:04 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: lowbridge

hit the bricks go back to canada please


39 posted on 12/23/2023 12:42:38 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: lowbridge

Mainstreaming mental illness.


40 posted on 12/23/2023 3:05:28 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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