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AFA-Tied Group Angry About Natalie Johnson’s Firing For Transphobia

The firing of Natalie Johnson has gone kind of viral and started getting a lot of notice. What did she do that got her fired? Well, that depends on whether or not you ask the right people. Ask the wrong people and they will claim that she prevented a man from using the women’s dressing room. Ask the teenage girl she harassed, and you learn that she prevented a young woman from entering the women’s dressing room. So, of course, those who have no clue about the biological origins of transsexuality tend to claim that she was right in her actions while her employers have said that she was absolutely wrong, knowingly violated the policies of the company, and harassed a customer.

So, of course, the hate-affiliate group One Million Moms wants Macy’s to apologize for, well, doing what was right.

One Million Moms Director Monica Cole sent out an email saying:

According to Liberty Counsel, Natalie Johnson says she saw the young man walk out of the women’s fitting room and politely told him that he could not go back in because it was for women only. The cross-dressing young man claimed that he is a “female.” Johnson said that he was wearing make-up and girl’s clothing, but clearly he was a male. The cross-dresser was accompanied by five other individuals.

Ahem…yes. That person sounds female, and the manishly dressed and looking Johnson made a decision to bar this young woman from the women’s dressing room. Johnson recently gave an interview in which she wore pants, a rather masculine shirt, and had her hair slicked back. It took some verification to find out that she was not, in fact, the teen girl that she harassed.

Cole also wrote:

The group argued with expletives that Macy’s is LGBT-friendly, to which Johnson replied that Macy’s is also non-discriminatory toward religion, and that it would go against her religious beliefs to lie that he was a woman or compromise with homosexuality. The group then demanded to speak with a manager.

The policy about non-discrimination of religion discusses harassment based upon religion. In other words, you can be hired no matter what your religion is, but if you start pushing your religion on others, they can complain and you can be disciplined. This also means that you cannot evangelize when it comes to customers. This amounts to religious harassment. In other words, religious non-discrimination does not cover being allowed to harass others with your religion. As for the use of expletives. . .after being harassed for a long time, yeah, you tend to use explatives.

OneMillionMoms has been so helpful and provided us with contact numbers so that you can express your support for Macy’s. Here aer those numbers, please give them a call:

IMPORTANT! Personally call Macy’s headquarters at 513-579-7000 and express your outrage at this injustice to female employees and customers.

Other numbers to call:

Jim Sluzewski, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications – 513-579-7764
Macy’s Media Relations – Julie Strider, 646-429-5213

Oh, and you can go here to send an email to the head of Macy’s through the OMM email system. If nothing else, it will annoy the crap out of them that you’re doing it.