Dani Davis told a superior at Walmart that a man screamed anti-trans epithets while she was alone in the bathroom. Walmart fired her after she reported what happened.

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.

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
    141·
    2 days ago

    “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.

    So to protect cis women, he is threatening and scaring cis women.

    • Hellahunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      75·
      2 days ago

      What a total douche. Also, how does Walmart come to the conclusion that firing this woman was for the best?

      Like they tried to save face and make up for it, but it was too little too late.

      Walmart has been and will always be garbage.

    • FreeHat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      2 days ago

      I find it fascinating that guys like this usually have a wife/girlfriend who somehow excuses their behavior like WTF is in their head? Are they stupid or just as shitty as the person they’re following around?

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        43·
        2 days ago

        I think it can be a (bad) cultural thing. When I told my mom I worried my cousin’s new husband was abusive, my mom told me he was “a regular Kentucky man. They’re just like that.”

        (My other cousin confirmed her sister’s new husband was an abusive dick, but sister refused to leave him. Other cousin and I both went out of state for college, which helps break indoctrination. We were back in town for a funeral.)