M&S Apologises After Girl, 14, Was Left “Freaked Out” When 6’ 2” Transgender Employee Asked if She Needed Help in Bra Department
Marks & Spencer has said sorry after a 14 year-old girl was left “freaked out” when a 6ft 2in trans staff member offered to help her in the bra section. The Mail has the story.
The child’s furious mother complained to the retail giant and said it was “completely inappropriate” for her daughter to be approached by a “biological male” in the lingerie section of the shop, where she was hoping to have a bra fitting.
She detailed in an email to M&S the “horror” her daughter experienced when she was approached by the male identifying as female.
“He is at least 6ft 2in tall… My daughter recoiled, so I politely declined the offer and we left immediately. She was visibly upset and said she felt freaked out.”
The retailer replied and said they were “truly sorry” and “deeply regret the distress your daughter felt during her visit to our store”. …
The outraged mother has asked M&S to work up a policy that ensures transgender members of staff would not approach girls and young women.
Human rights boss of the charity Sex Matters, Fiona McAnena, told the Telegraph: “M&S needs to rethink its priorities and remember that women and girls have rights too, and that this man should not be permitted to hang around in the women’s underwear department as a matter of common decency.
“This is what happens when a business centres the feelings of men who identify as women, even at the expense of their own customers. It is entirely inappropriate for a man to approach a teenage girl in a lingerie department.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: J.K. Rowling has called for a boycott of Marks and Spencer if the retailer continues to allow biological men to access female changing rooms and offer to fit bras, says the Telegraph.
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I note the priority: colleagues first, then customers.
They are not truly sorry or they would give proper ‘guidance’. to all staff. They must have a national safeguarding policy that would forbid this, even if it makes some ‘colleagues’ feel uneasy. I am sure that a lot of colleagues are uneasy about this but too scared to discuss it openly
Actually I take issue with this bit;
”The outraged mother has asked M&S to work up a policy that ensures transgender members of staff would not approach girls and young women.”
What about not ”young women”? Do women that aren’t classed as young anymore have less rights to dignity, safety and respect? Would a 50yr old be totally fine with being approached for a bra fitting by this same trans person? Bit insensitive and daft ( and ageist! ), isn’t it? Maybe they think anyone over the age of 45yrs would be less inclined to histrionics.
Do not give in to this mental illness, resist at all costs, this is not safe for anyone.
There was an entire department store and the person in charge had to stick him on ‘lingerie duty’! Seriously? Put him in the bloody food hall, that’s nice and gender neutral! Meanwhile, speaking of mental illness: Nothing says ”I’m a man and you will address me as such otherwise I will sue you for attempted genocide” quite like giving birth to a baby. But whether via the ‘foof’ or the ‘sun roof’, I actually don’t know, though I feel strangely intrigued by this significant missing detail; ”Transgender activist Freddie McConnell issued a plea to UK politicians in the Guardian on July 31, calling on them to step in and block the ongoing backlash to the transgender agenda. Characteristically, the title reeks of emotional blackmail couched in a disingenuous call for debate: “The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety—MPs must have the chance to debate it.” McConnell, you may recall, rose to fame as the first “transgender man” to give birth. After transitioning in 2011 and publicly “presenting” as a slender male with a bushy mustache, McConnell—who is, obviously, female—documented her pregnancy and birth in the 2019 documentary Seahorse, which premiered to groveling elite acclaim at the Tribeca Film Festival.… Read more »
A 6’2 ‘lady’. How unusual. M&S should be boycotted.
In our local area here, there is a happily married local policewoman with kids who just happens to be 6’2″.
Very tall ladies do exist in Britain, and they usually have some Dutch, German or Scandinavian ancestors in their genetic heritage. Just look at Penny Lancaster, married to Rod Stewart.
I wonder if the M&S one had a twelve oclock shadow.
Most likely!
It wasn’t an ordinary twelve o’clock shadow it was an M&S…..
I’m trying to visualise this 6’2 guy in an M&S sales woman’s uniform.. Like something out of Carry on Girls!
Bernard Breslaw?
Yep!
‘Common decency’. Not so common anymore…
Well done to that girl and her mother for kicking up about this grotesque invasion of their female privacy, decency and safety, instead of submitting to the propaganda and derangement of pretending a man is a woman, and allowing him to ogle girls in lingerie.
And to think this is happening after all these years of feminists complaining about wanting “Safe Spaces” for women!
Surely14 years of “identity education” in a UK state school was supposed to have rendered anyone immune to “freaking out”?
Good point! I hope it’s a sign that the Mass Hypnotic Globalist Brainwashing is beginning to crack.
You notive M&S did not express deep regret that this man had been there or that he had approached the 14 year old girl. Their only regret is they got caught following wokery.
It is sad to see yet another nail in the coffin of a once successful and highly respected business. They have hardly put a foot right for many years.
I set foot in an M&S for the last time about eight years ago. I purchased a leather wallet. I shan’t bore you with the details as to why it was totally unfit for purpose. After ten minutes, I was back in the store, waiting quietly in the queue in the Returns Department. I fully expected the bossy headmistress type to want to know why I was returning it, but instead she chastised me for having removed the cardboard hanger. “We can’t sell this now you’ve removed the packaging, you do know that, don’t you.” “I fully expected to keep and use this wallet. That is why I removed the packaging.” “I can’t refund you. Would you like vouchers.” “No, I would prefer cash. Look, it’s unusable, let me show y-” “We can’t sell this.” “You wouldn’t want to sell it, it doesn’t work, look, let me show you.” “Sir. I am going to have to ask you to accept vouchers.” I started to lose my patience, and looked for support from the other naughty, grubby individuals who had enough cheek to want their money back from Marks and Spencer and enough ignorance to not understand the sheer quality of… Read more »
Bravo sir
I would’ve just asked to speak to the manager and not lost my rag and thrown a strop in the middle of a shop, but that’s just me. One can be assertive *and* keep one’s cool.
Don’t be like that, Mogs. I normally take that approach. And I didn’t “throw a strop”. I threw the wallet against the far wall. But sometimes you just know the quiet approach ain’t gonna work. She was the manager of the store.
Leeds, Briggate. And it wasn’t the first time I’d had a problem with that lot.
And to think that it was in Leeds Market that Marks and Spencer opened up their first store. They would have been glad to hear why something they were selling was useless. They’re turning in their graves, Mogs.
It’s like when you’re trying to teach your young kids about certain limits in life. Sometimes, very, very rarely, a physical signal (the smack of their bare bottom with the flat of your hand) is required to make a very clear signal that they are behaving in an unacceptable way.
Don’t be like what? I’m only saying how I would’ve dealt with it differently: in a calm and non-emotionally driven way that wouldn’t end with me losing my temper and leaving the shop, out of pocket.
“She was the manager of the store”.
Mmmkay…Is this like those ‘choose your own adventure’ books where you can change the storyline as you go and get the ending you want?🤔
Same here although I would have made enough noise to alert the customers around me.
Well exactly. We all would approach the same situation differently due to the fact we have our own, individual personality traits. I don’t do histrionics but I am forthright and I agree, I wouldn’t be speaking in hushed tones, I’d be speaking so that others nearby could hear what’s occurring which then puts pressure on the staff to be obliging and demonstrate good customer service. This can be make or break for a store’s reputation, at the end of the day. If you’re not content with how your issue is being dealt with by a staff member you can even say you’ll be making a written complaint and make a note of their name.
There’s ways and means because, as soon as you lose your temper, become unreasonable and act aggressively, you’ve lost. You leave with nothing, not even your dignity, because you’ve just made a right tit of yourself in public.
Bravo!
That girl is clearly a right wing extremist Literally Hitler for making such an outrageous slur against this vulnerable employee who was only trying to help her fit her new bra properly.
Off to reeducation she must go.
No matter how many times it’s denied, the acceptance of men pretending to be women can only increase the risks of harm and facilitate the collapse of civil society.
Logic, rationalism and objectivity is the enemy of ideology and postmodernism’s cryptonite.
I am much older than this girl and I was also “freaked” out” by a trans person in a store. I am sorry, but I have nothing against these people and they should be allowed to live their lives, but government cannot expect us all to just accept this stuff, when it runs counter to our instincts. But that is exactly what they do and will criminalise anyone who even remotely seems to disapprove or refuses to address them by calling them “Miss”.
I am running out of places to buy things, Marks and spencer placing men dressed as women over the safety of real women. Anti Semitic shops like Coop, Why can’t they just do their fundamental job which is retail, i.e. sell us stuff, I don’t want to buy their political ideologies, I don’t want to be force fed their sexual preferences.
Just sell me things I want to buy and have courteous staff. Marks and Spencer used to know how to do this, what went wrong?
M & S clothing which used to be the reason for their existence is now absolutely dire and has been for many years. Trading on past glories.
A few years ago I was in a lingerie shop in Glasgow, on two separate occasions. Both left me uncomfortable and I spoke to the management.
I don’t know which left me more uncomfortable and someone clearly wasn’t thinking.
Why did M and S apologise if their policy is to appease transgender men at the expense òf women customers ?