{"id":64834,"date":"2016-03-16T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64834"},"modified":"2016-03-15T18:03:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:03:53","slug":"64834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64834","title":{"rendered":"A can of worms"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is this woman in Los Angeles, Kendall Oliver, an Army veteran who claims to be “genderqueer”, which means that she doesn’t subscribe to any gender. She went to get a haircut at a barber shop, and she went to the only barber shop in LA, apparently. The guy who runs the shop, Richard Hernandez, belongs to a Christian religious sect (I think Apostolic Pentecostals are one of those sects) that doesn’t allow him to cut women’s hair. So you can see that the cultures clashed. A person who doesn’t identify herself as a woman, can’t get a haircut from a guy who does classify her as a woman for religious reasons. She even called the owner and explained that she thinks she’s more man than woman, but that didn’t change his mind – you know because he’s bound by his religion to not make the distinctions.<\/p>\n

Of course, because the barber shop is apparently the only barber shop in LA, Oliver has to make a stink, according to the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Peter Renn, a lawyer at LGBT rights organization Lambda Legal, is talking to Oliver about the incident and may pursue legal action. He said that California law that prevents discrimination on the basis of gender or gender identity should have compelled Hernandez or one of his employees to cut Oliver\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n

If the shop offers a service \u2014 in this case, the haircut that the other person with Oliver\u2019s hairstyle was getting that day \u2014 then it must offer that same service to any person, Renn said.<\/p>\n

\u201cReligion can\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t be used as a shield for discriminatory business practices,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I say that it’s the only barbershop in LA because she didn’t take her money else where to get her hair cut, you know like every other consumer does who is dissatisfied with their treatment in a service-related industry. Like the gays who couldn’t get their wedding cake baked at one certain bakery and instead of taking their business else where, they had to make a nation-wide stink about it. I’m sure there is probably even a hair cutting place in LA that caters to genderqueers. But, like everything else these days, it can’t be that easy.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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