Traverse City business says trans and nonbinary people should ‘seek services at a local pet groomer’ days after Supreme Court ruling on discrimination protections
Traverse City business says trans and nonbinary people should ‘seek services at a local pet groomer’ days after Supreme Court ruling on discrimination protections
and store fronts were ultimately where part of the civil rights battle of the 60s was litigated and many people would say won positively because those signs came down. what do you see as the important part here? because it would seem that some opponents of this movement are trying to use certain businesses to create or erect a new second-class citizen. you can t get in. you can t get your hair done here. you can t go to that concert depending on whose business is running it. yeah, i think there s a question sort of back in front of the gop right now. are lgbtq americans full and equal members of american society? are they deserving of equal and community and all the rights and privileges that everybody else in this country experiences? you are right. i think there are people who just like this salon owner in the wake of this scotus decision have decided, i m going to vocally support this anti-lgbtq
fighters and combat vehicles. afghanistan s taliban rulers have found another way to restrict women s lives. they ve now ordered the closure of all beauty salons. the move adds to the taliban s draconian crackdown on women s rights in society and cuts off a vital source of women s income. reporter: driving through the streets of kabul among the brightly colored shops is one last symbol of women being visible in the public life. squeezing them out of sight, taliban authorities ordered beauty par lons to be shut within the month. sending shockwaves for women already gripped in a chokehold. a salon owner who did not want to be identified for safety reasons told cnn the taliban s order means her poverty-stricken family cannot afford the bare essentials. i don t understand why beauty salons should be banned, she
says. my husband is jobless, and this beauty salon is the only means to feed my family. i have four kids. they need food and clothes. the taliban seized back power in the summer of 2021 with thousands of terrified families flocking to kabul airport, desperate to escape the group s barbaric rule. while the taliban vowed reform, promising to be more progressive than their previous rule, women were quickly erased from public life. banning teenage girls from secondary and higher education and ordering nonprofit organizations to stop their female employees from coming to work. the salon owner we spoke to says she doesn t know what more can be taken from them before there s nothing left at all. no woman is showing off her face with makeup outside, and we re already wearing hijab in public, she said. this will further deprive women of their rights and freedoms. as the taliban showily chips away at their rights, hope is slowly dwindling for some women.