That is what happened to an Oregon bar, they just got slammed with a $400,000 fine for discrimination.
There are some who feel that the bar owner was in his rights to ban the trans group from meeting there, after all he was losing business because of them. But substitute blacks for trans people; if a group of black people were coming to the bar and the other patrons were staying away would it be okay to the black customers to stay away? So why would it be alright for him to tell trans customers to stay away?
Oregon Bar Must Pay $400K to Banned Transgender Customers: CourtI feel for the bar owner but what he did was wrong and I am glad that the courts have upheld the Bureau of Labor and Industries.
By NBC News/ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 23, 2015
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland bar owner must pay $400,000 in damages to a group of transgender patrons he asked to stay away, the Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed Wednesday. The state Bureau of Labor and Industries ordered the penalty in 2013, saying the bar violated a law that prohibits discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
In 2012, Chris Penner, owner of a bar formerly known as the P Club, left two voice messages for a member of the Rose City T-Girls, an informal group of transgender customers that frequented the bar every Friday night. The messages said to stop visiting because business had declined in the 18 months since the bar became the group's gathering spot.
There are some who feel that the bar owner was in his rights to ban the trans group from meeting there, after all he was losing business because of them. But substitute blacks for trans people; if a group of black people were coming to the bar and the other patrons were staying away would it be okay to the black customers to stay away? So why would it be alright for him to tell trans customers to stay away?
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