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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I’ve seen the ny post do worse than that in referring to Sam Britton (i think it was), a singular person, as “they”
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
the human race needs a good cleansing ...
Perhaps because she is a failure at being a he, she should transition back to what she really is.
The real reason should be is that it’s ugly.
Just a SHE looking for trouble...
She looks like the dude who neglected to read the warnings on the log splitter.
Sad, it’s straight up nuts, and, she hit the wall and is no longer attractive
Mentally ill ‘person’ needs treatment. Good from company to fire them, gives them more time to get treatment and turn their life around.
My Chevy Silverado successfully identifies as a compact. I don’t encourage it but sometimes, well, it works.
Well if you werent a fag you wouldnt be called insufficient.
She could do an ad campaign to down sell Bud Light.
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.”
I didn’t think it possible to be ‘insufficiently masculine’ to work in men’s fashion.
I’m so sorry. It’s just getting a little confusing with 60+ genders to deal with
I hear ya’!
hit the bricks go back to canada please
Mainstreaming mental illness.
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