Reposted by Matthew Balaam
HERE IS A LOVELY STORY: a friend lost his wallet on his way home from work the other day.
(that's not the lovely bit) 1/2
Matthew Balaam
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![A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreigy6jrfjxyegrf7h4wzz3yptwmzobhjrd3k5zjoxwd75r6ulxzsyq)
![[Scene is a parody of a 1970s Public Information Film. A young girl is going home from school.]
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[She leaves the school gates].
VOICEOVER:
The world today
is full of people.
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You meet lots of them every day.
[The girl crosses the road with the help of a LOLLIPOP MAN]
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LOLLIPOP MAN says ’to camera’ [girl’s POV]:
Mind ‘ow you go, love.
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But every time you meet one,
[She gets on a bus]
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BUS DRIVER [also talking to camera]:
That’ll be 40p, please
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[She enters a sweet shop]
You must always think to yourself:
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[The kindly looking woman behind the counter hands her a bag of pick n mix]
KINDLY WOMAN:
There y’are, sweet’art...
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[Voiceover again]:
Could *they* be a person who leaves one-star reviews for things when they get sent the wrong item?
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[The woman picks up a smartphone to write something]
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[Cut to a view of her phone screen, it is an Amazon review page for Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro]:
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
[one star]
THIS ISN’T A PRIT STICK
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[Woman looks ‘to camera’ at the girl, sinisterly]
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[Girl’s terrified face behind the ad’s final text line]:
Always have one-star-reviewers-of-things-for-not-being-other-things sense.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreieffcyx6vvrd2ndlvacsbknp7y2zbu6vipm2oxdtlvf4hpikntowq)
