{"id":35191,"date":"2016-05-31T00:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T03:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=35191"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:36:09","slug":"transgender-army-reservist-sues-barbershop-for-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/31\/transgender-army-reservist-sues-barbershop-for-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Army Reservist Sues Barbershop for Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendall Oliver, also known as Brittney, is a US Army Reservist who identifies &#8220;more as male than female.&#8221; (For the record, she&#8217;s a woman, and she refers to herself as &#8220;they.&#8221;) As <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/03\/21\/sort-of-transgender-army-reservist-threatens-suit-over-haircut\/\">noted in March<\/a>, when she attempted to patronize The Barbershop in Rancho Cucamonga, California, she discovered The Barbershop is just that &#8212; a barbershop, not a salon. The Barbershop doesn&#8217;t cut women&#8217;s hair, and declined to cut her&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>As noted at <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/transgender-man-sues-men-only-barber.html\">The Religion Clause<\/a>, Oliver has now sued The Barbershop (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/articles\/files\/oliverbarber.pdf\">PDF<\/a>), claiming the Government requires barbers to cut both men and women&#8217;s hair. Part of her justification is that The Barbershop has no &#8220;legitimate business justification&#8221; for the discrimination, which appears to ignore the fact publicly presenting one&#8217;s business as cutting men&#8217;s hair is substantially different than presenting one&#8217;s business as cutting women&#8217;s hair. (Barbers across the country are now gripping their scissors tightly, wondering if they, too, will be required to cut hair they&#8217;re either not trained to cut or particularly skilled at cutting.)<\/p>\n<p>Her justification, of course, is that the men who <!--more-->own the shop publicly stated they have a religious objection to cutting women&#8217;s hair.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver believes her right to not-decide if she is sort-of a man, sort-of a woman overrides the right of the owners of The Barbershop to conduct themselves according to their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34735 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/oliver.jpg\" alt=\"oliver\" width=\"240\" height=\"171\" \/>Interestingly, some have suggested Oliver&#8217;s desired haircut technically violates Army regulations &#8212; which, despite attempts at gender revisionism, still have different standards for men and women.<\/p>\n<p>Current military policies also prohibit service by men or women who &#8220;identify as more&#8221; the opposite gender than their own. Her case seems a fairly textbook example of why the rules on mental identity confusion, however personally\u00a0tragic, were written.<\/p>\n<p>Why would someone sue a doctor for refusing to give a man a gynecological exam?<\/p>\n<p>Like members of the Democrat Party recently said, it is a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/05\/25\/conflict-between-military-religious-freedom-sexual-freedom-continues\/\">shame<\/a>&#8220;:\u00a0 It is shameful that people believe heretofore-unknown &#8220;sexual liberty&#8221; overrides <em>other<\/em> people&#8217;s human rights &#8212; as well as common sense and decency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendall Oliver, also known as Brittney, is a US Army Reservist who identifies &#8220;more as male than female.&#8221; (For the record, she&#8217;s a woman, and she refers to herself as &#8220;they.&#8221;) As noted in March, when she attempted to patronize The Barbershop in Rancho Cucamonga, California, she discovered The Barbershop is just that &#8212; a barbershop, not a salon. 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