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"  Though it claims to &amp;quot;[meet] the lingerie and intimate apparel needs of women in Austin Texas for over 45 years,&amp;quot; the well-known Austin bra store Petticoat Fair certainly didn&amp;#039;t make Kylie Jack feel welcome [via Jezebel]. Later, Jack wrote about her deeply shitty experience on Facebook:   Post by Kylie Jack.   Unfortunately, commodifying trans people by their surgical procedures is quite common outside the trans community, despite explanations such as highly visible trans woman Laverne Cox&amp;#039;s to Katie Couric of why that&amp;#039;s offensive. There are a lot of pragmatic reasons that sex reassignment procedures take years to complete, if ever: Insurance may not cover the high cost; it&amp;#039;s invasive; in the case of trans men, it&amp;#039;s not as advanced. And at the end of the day, as far as some people are concerned, if you&amp;#039;re not &amp;quot;done,&amp;quot; or if you don&amp;#039;t &amp;quot;pass&amp;quot; for a woman physically, you&amp;#039;re still a man.   Petticoat Fair released a statement claiming that they&amp;#039;ve &amp;quot;served the trans community&amp;quot; for half a decade, but still clearly doesn&amp;#039;t get why what they did to Jack was discriminatory. (Find those parts bolded below.)  &amp;quot;Just as a gym won&amp;#039;t allow men in a women&amp;#039;s dressing room (and vice versa) for the comfort and safety of its patrons, we don&amp;#039;t allow men or boys above a certain age in our dressing area. Despite our otherwise inclusive approach, those who might be or who outwardly appear to be men (regardless of how they are dressed) pose a delicate challenge, and in the case of imposters, can pose a safety risk to the Petticoat Fair staff.   &amp;quot;If it&amp;#039;s unclear whether a customer is a man or a woman, we err on the side of caution as a protocol, but never on the side of discrimination or intolerance.&amp;quot;  LOL, k.   They also add that Jack and her girlfriend were offered a separate dressing area where &amp;quot;women who have undergone mastectomies and need post-surgical care&amp;quot; can change privately,&amp;quot; as if this makes up for the fact that they denied Kylie Jack her female identity. Their use of the word &amp;quot;imposter&amp;quot; is key here. Even after a trans individual has bottom surgery, transphobic people think they&amp;#039;re &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; men or women \u2013 totally unaware that the surgery follows the sexual identity that&amp;#039;s already there, rather than the other way around. It&amp;#039;s not elective, it&amp;#039;s corrective surgery. It&amp;#039;s really not difficult to understand that.   RELATED: Teen Jocks Who Made Secret Sex Tape Charged for Child Porn The Women Who Want to Make Revenge Porn Illegal   Follow Anna on Twitter.   Photo Credit: Facebook "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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