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Walmart fired Dani Davis, a 6'4" cisgender woman, after a man who mistook her for transgender verbally threatened her in a women’s restroom at a Florida store.

Davis, visibly shaken, reported the March 14 incident to her immediate supervisor but was fired for not informing salaried management, allegedly creating a “security risk.”

Davis called the firing discriminatory. After viral backlash, Walmart offered to reinstate her with back pay.

Davis, a longtime employee, is uncertain about returning, citing fears of a hostile work environment.

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[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In his dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, John Marshall Harlan cited one of his objections to Louisiana's public transit segregation law as being that it effectively left the execution of policy to railroad porters. Homer Plessy was a light-skinned Creole man whose family was free before the Civil War. He would have enjoyed roughly equal rights to Whites up until the first generation of Jim Crow laws in the 1870s. Harlan pointed out that the criteria for "White" and "Black" for the purposes of segregation was not solid, just being whoever was in charge of the segregated facilities looking at them and determining what they are.

There is nothing new under the Sun.

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[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Let me just state the obvious: They fired her due to the current US administration. She got harassed in the first place because of the current US administration.

Trump is effecting corporate decisions without even making in specific executive orders as well bolstering the common rightwing individual's boldness in harassing people.

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[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 days ago

Just like Imane Khelif, the female boxer, who IS cisgender. I guess she didn’t look female enough for some people.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I would boycott Walmart but I already started boycotting them over a decade ago. I understand some people in tight financial situations need the lower prices they can get from places like Walmart. And therefore they cannot so freely boycott such a place but if you're somebody who can avoid it I would advise steering clear of that shit hole. Their policies are trash and the family that owns it are oligarchical douche bags.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How the fuck can you reprimand someone for not reporting an incident properly when they report it to their supervisor? The supervisor's responsibility at that point is to either inform the employee of the proper way to report it or report it on their behalf. If the report doesn't come through properly then the supervisor has failed to fulfill their duties, not the other employee.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They know all this. They didn't fire her out of ignorance.

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[–] mad_djinn@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

FIT YOURSELF INTO THE PROPERLY SHAPED HOLE OR DIE

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[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Haven't set foot in a Walmart in years...

Several reasons I refuse to do business with them.

This is just affirming some of those reasons.

Fuck Walmart.

🙄 🤡 🖕 🖕

[–] chetradley@lemm.ee 32 points 1 day ago

When you're so committed to "protecting women's spaces" that you go into a women's restroom to harass a woman.

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Not saying anything positive about the company, but just to add context: they have invited her back with back pay, but she is hesitant to do so fearing a hostile work environment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/27/walmart-fires-woman-trans-hate-bathroom/

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Walmart should have "fired" that customer, ie trespass him. WTF was this goon doing in the women's restroom anyway?

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[–] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What ever happened to people just minding their own business?

Seriously, just help when you can and but out otherwise. EASY peasy recipe for a better life.

It’s almost like “Ignorance is bliss” got mixed into “intolerance is better” somewhere along the way.

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[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Zero surprise Walmart did the wrong thing

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[–] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

These fucking Conservatives desperately need to have their fucking heads kicked in. They're fucking apes; they don't understand anything else.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 25 points 2 days ago

What a fucking chode that guy is.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Get strapped. These emboldened bully fucks will get worse if they continue to be met without resistance

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[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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