A transsexual hair stylist and
Arcigay rights group on Tuesday denounced what they said was
"yet another sad episode of transphobia".
The incident took place on the summer resort island of
Ischia, where hairdresser Valentina Mennella said a couple
brought their three children in for haircuts, but left with an
excuse as soon as they found out she had a sex change and that
she used to be a man.
"I was a victim of an absurd act of discrimination in my
own salon," said Mennella, an Ischia native who was elected Miss
Trans in 1993.
"This episode points to the prejudice transsexuals are
still subjected to on the job, and also how transphobia and
homophobia are inculcated in children by their own parents,"
said Arcigay Naples Director Daniela Lourdes Falanga.
"An discriminatory, implicitly violent and unacceptable
educational model persists in 2016, and this is why a law
against homotransphobia is more and more necessary and urgent,"
she said.
The Ischia incident took place on July 30, Arcigay said.
Transsexuals are people who identify with the opposite sex
and take on its physical characteristics via hormone therapy and
surgery.
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