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Summary
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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Walmart appeared to acknowledge the error in a statement released to the media.
“We want our associates to feel safe and supported in their workplace, and we won’t tolerate bullying or threats of violence against our associates or customers,” Walmart spokesperson Joe Pennington said in a statement. “We’ve reviewed the situation and will be addressing it internally. We’ve also made multiple attempts to invite Ms. Davis to return to work, with back pay.”
For once in my life I’d like to see one of companies respond in the same way that got them in the situation in the first place. Like if Walmart just responded, “lol fuck you idc” it would actually make me less angry than this bullshit.
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When you’re so committed to “protecting women’s spaces” that you go into a women’s restroom to harass a woman.
It doesn’t really matter if she is trans or not IMO. nobody deserves to be treated like that.
True, but it shows how even non-trans people are harmed by anti-trans hysteria and fear-mongering. Just like how even men are harmed by misogynistic policies and discrimination. Trans rights are human rights.
It does demonstrate the truism that transphobia doesn’t only harm trans people.
That’s the whole point. Any woman who doesn’t conform to the traditional stereotype can be targeted. This is in no way accidental.
Even traditionally feminine western women. They can just point to a minor detail like a wider mandible, a bit of hair on the upper lip or arms, a more developed Adam’s apple, etc.
Exactly. The goal is to create a definition of woman sufficiently small that nobody can feel secure she fits in it.
This is one of the reasons one of the mantras is “trans rights are women’s rights”.
I’ve always heard it as “trans rights are human rights”, is this a different form or does it have a different meaning?
I think it’s probably more focused on those impacted most and (unfortunately) where the most sympathy is.
A lot of transphobia is under the guise of women’s rights (sports, bathrooms). But also, anyone can (usually) participate it men’s sports and men are generally not threatened by someone using the men’s bathroom. That doesn’t always apply. But it’s usually women who suffer the most.
Why was the man who was threatened by her in the women’s room?
If he’s a man concerned about protecting murica against the scourge of the trans, and a donvict-supporting magoff, well, then, by Jehovah, it’s his right to be in that bathroom inspecting the genitalia of anyone in there.
You know, to Protect Women and Girls ™.
Obviously he was just there to make sure everyone using the women’s restroom had and honest, God-given pussy.
G-gussy?
Godussy. Can’t be unclear about these things.
Jesusussy does not have the same ring does it?
It’s got a ring to it, of sorts. But it sounds like the pussy owned by Jesus. Since Jesus didn’t make any pussies.
Id also recommend removing the second us, leaving us all with:
Jesussy.
These fucking Conservatives desperately need to have their fucking heads kicked in. They’re fucking apes; they don’t understand anything else.
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/
“After discriminating against you pretty harshly and illegally, we are offering you your job back and back pay as compensation. There is no guarantee that we will treat you well and there will be no repercussions for us.”
Walmart
And it’s all so they can avoid being sued
There is no guarantee that we will treat you well
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Walmart
Quite the opposite in fact.
Right? This part stuck out to me:
She appealed the termination through Walmart’s internal review process but was denied. She filed for unemployment insurance but also took her story to Facebook, where it soon went viral.
Walmart appeared to acknowledge the error in a statement released to the media.
“We want our associates to feel safe and supported in their workplace, and we won’t tolerate bullying or threats of violence against our associates or customers,” Walmart spokesperson Joe Pennington said in a statement. “We’ve reviewed the situation and will be addressing it internally. We’ve also made multiple attempts to invite Ms. Davis to return to work, with back pay.”
Oh, really, NOW you’re taking it seriously because you know you fucked up? What a fucking obviously canned corporate response. I’d be calling lawyers left and right after that, I bet more than a few would take it pro-bono.
And we pinky-swear that we will not wait three to six months and then fire for some other made up reason that you can disprove.
So, a man went into the ladies’ restroom to assault a woman because he’s afraid of men entering the ladies’ room to assault women.
Oh Florida… You constant shame on the republic.
A cis man went into the ladies wc to assault a cis woman who he thought was a trans woman because he is afraid that cis men start to use the excuse of being trans women to go into the ladies wc to assault women.
The irony in this whole thing
Pilboooooy
It’s a constant shame on the empire now
Empires need dominion over foreign states, expanding their borders. America would love to be an empire, they are just a wee little dictatorship with an inept conman in charge. I’m hardly worried, mostly just sad to watch it happen in real time.
I mean, the current borders of the US do include some former foreign states and land previously owned by others, that were taken over in the past, Hawaii for example. Does that not make it an empire, or does that stop counting after a century or so?
It is a sort of empire - Immerwahr called it a Pointilist one
https://www.historynet.com/the-invisible-empire-why-some-americans-dont-count/
They’re working on it
I had to double take when I read that because it was so mind numbingly stupid. I was like wait… huh? A man berated a woman in the woman’s bathroom?
I thought this whole bathroom thing was about protecting women from men! /s
Then Walmart fires her? WTF, the man should be banned from the store. Fuck Walmart.
This is the desired outcome. They want all women to be as gender conforming and submissive to men as possible. They know it affects women who do not fit the defined conventions of what women are meant to look like / act like / talk like etc. This is actually the main reason they want to do it.
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Holy fuck this makes so much sense and I hate it.
So fragile and white…
omg let’s go after everybody that doesn’t fit some kind of white heteronormative cookie cutter idea of humanity
So… middle school?
That’s pretty much where the magoffs are, emotionally and intellectually.
Step 1) Sue Walmart. Step 2) Retire in Europe.
Do… do you think…
That a person working… at Walmart…
… has the financial resources…
… to sue Walmart?
Theres a very good chance of finding a lawyer to work for compensation after settlement
Morgan and Morgan is from Florida, they might be the largest firm in the world and take cases for improper firings. Usually they take their cases on the basis of you won’t pay anything unless you win. I’m sure they’d love that case
The firm that advertises themselves as "good Catholics, who had as many children as they could, beginning immediately after they got married”? Yeaaaah.
Oh I’m sure they aren’t great people. They make most of their money off swindling insurance companies for huge settlement offers due to work/car injuries. That said, if you’re trying to get a huge settlement from Walmart, they are probably a good bet though. Also I know they turned down a case years ago when my dad went to them about his mother. She had surgery where there was no cartilage left in her ankle. They decided to screw her ankle to her foot essentially making it unable to move but reduce the pain. When she was in recovery they kept forcing her to get up and walk on it and she kept saying it hurt to much. Weeks into the rehab they said she wasn’t trying to put in the work. Then after a lot of arguing we finally got them to do new X-rays. Of course they found hairline fractures around the screws they placed. The insurance company/Medicaid and what not all said they wouldn’t cover any rehab time after the fractures were found because that time was used up during the period they were trying to force her to walk on a botched surgery. Morgan and Morgan turned down the case, and she reverse mortgaged her house to cover the rehab time. America at its finest
Oh wow! I’m so sorry. I wish you and your family all the best, going forward.
And they’re willing to take on big corporations - iirc they were representing Austin’s mom after he was killed in the monorail accident at Magic Kingdom 17 or 18 years ago this July (damn I can’t believe it’s been that long). She ended up settling out of court, it was really an awful situation.
Agreed. The misogyny is clear, even ignoring any hint of trans issues. But, I don’t know what a settlement would look like and how much effort it would be to fight WMT lawyers.
Yeah, in a strictly financial sense, they already offered to make her whole. IANAL but I doubt this would be the million-dollar suit that I wish it were.
That’s because lawyers are generally pretty smart, and they can tell when they have a sure thing.
Do step 1 before the laws change to where the guy who threatened her gets a medal of freedom instead.
He’s already started the onboarding process to be in Trump’s cabinet
Secretary of Offense
It’s hard to sue for damages when they’re offering reinstatement with back pay.
Emotional Suffering, and IANAL but I’m sure there’s more.
That’s a hard one to prove in court.
If it were easy we wouldn’t need lawyers.
Edit: Yeah, no one would believe this caused emotional distress. /s
Around 8 p.m. on March 14, she wrote that she was alone in a stall in the women’s restroom when she heard a man yelling.
“The voice was much louder than simply someone yelling in from the door. This man was fully IN the restroom, yelling something about” transgender women, Davis wrote.
Davis said the man yelled he was going to “beat" them and was going to “protect his wife/girlfriend from them” while his wife or girlfriend was pleading with him to stop and leave before he got into trouble.
Davis wrote she was scared and froze, not knowing if the man was going to physically attack her.
“I was the only one in there so it seemed pretty clear that he saw me enter the restroom and he assumed that I am trans because of my height,” Davis recalled. “It was terrifying and I wish no one else ever had an experience like that.”
The man eventually left, and Davis was able to leave the restroom and return to her workstation.
“My immediate supervisor came by and noticed that I was visibly shaken and emotional. After taking a few moments to calm myself down, I told her what had happened. I didn’t go home since it wasn’t long until my shift was done (10 p.m.),” Davis wrote. “Less than a week later, I was fired.”
The reason given for her termination was that she did not report the incident to a salaried management employee and, therefore, created a security risk.
“I took it to mean that I was the security risk because someone had mistaken me for trans,” Davis told the Washington Post.
Davis said she was devastated. Because of the anti-LGBTQ+ climate in Florida, she had been planning on leaving the state. But now, she doesn’t know after losing the job.
She appealed the termination through Walmart’s internal review process but was denied. She filed for unemployment insurance but also took her story to Facebook, where it soon went viral.
Punitive damages.
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.
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The company does not have your best interest in mind, ever. I’m going to guess the supervisor she opened up to is going to get fired now for not reporting or something.
If someone absolutely had to be fired over this, it’s her supervisor for either not telling her to let a higher up know, or being a god dam supervisor and not reporting it up the chain themselves. WTF
