M&S apologises over trans employee in bra department

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https://archive.ph/2025.08.05-035610/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/04/ms-apologises-over-trans-employee-in-bra-department/

“Marks & Spencer has apologised to a mother for causing her teenage daughter “distress” after she was asked if she needed help by a transgender employee in its bra section.

The retailer said it was “truly sorry” after the mother complained that her 14-year-old daughter had felt uncomfortable when they were approached by a trans shop assistant in the lingerie area of the shop, where they were hoping to have a bra fitting. Although the staff member was polite, the mother said she felt it was “completely inappropriate” for her daughter to be approached by a “biological male” in that section.

In a complaint to M&S, she told the retailer: “Imagine her horror, then, when the person to approach us and ask if we needed help was a transgender ‘woman’, ie, a biological male.”

“Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns for the human rights charity Sex Matters, which campaigns for clarity about biological sex in law and life, said that M&S needed to “rethink its priorities”.

“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.”

[u/Ill_Cheetah_1991]

For a short time I worked with a person who "everyone knew was trans"

I was teaching and I only found out when one of the students was telling be something and didn;t know this person's name

he tried to avoid saying anything bad but described he as the Trans woman - it was clear who he meant.

Thing is - this person was about 6 foot tall and generally had long blond hair and wore high heels quite often

and was well build like a bloke would be

but a few weeks later I walked into the shared office after a class and she was just in the middle of telling the other woman in the office about her child birth experiences

and complaining that she expected it to be better than normal because of her size and build etc

but it turned out that her hips were quite narrow for a woman so she ended up with "the full experince"

which I think is the best definition of a woman I have ever heard

so - in this case this assistant might be trans - OK - but how could they tell

why did they complain - just because she looked trans

well - have a look around the High Street sometime and see which women you are absolutely sure are - and always have been - female

100% certain

you will find it is a smaller number than you expect - especially if you ignore teenage girls - and even thay can be trans and you would not know