{"id":89377,"date":"2016-09-22T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=89377"},"modified":"2016-09-22T10:43:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T17:43:29","slug":"urban-outfitters-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/urban-outfitters-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Outfitters Stops Trans Person From Using Dressing Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Outfitters is normally under fire for selling controversial tees and <a href=\"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/urban-outfitters-pulls-another-product\/\" target=\"_blank\">beauty products<\/a>, but this time it&#8217;s for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/2016\/09\/123905\/trans-customer-urban-outfitters-dressing-room\" target=\"_blank\">discrimination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One disappointed customer wasn&#8217;t permitted to use the women&#8217;s dressing room in one of Urban&#8217;s Los Angeles stores. Nicholas Gorham, who identifies as gender fluid, penned <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/154301\/urban-outfitters-misses-the-mark-on-gender-nonbinary-acceptance#.1Hy11dZbr\" target=\"_blank\">an essay<\/a> for Mic in response to the transphobic experience.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When we got to the dressing rooms, Tamara, a cis woman, was taken in and given a room before the attendant began leading me to a completely different area to change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Urban Outfitters employee sensed the tension and explained\u00a0that it was because &#8220;there are young girls over there.&#8221; Gorham told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/2016\/09\/123905\/trans-customer-urban-outfitters-dressing-room\" target=\"_blank\">Refinery29<\/a> that he was &#8220;appalled and belittled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gorham tweeted about the incident and Urban Outfitters responded back with a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OK Urban Outfitters, good to know! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DkC9MPJght\">pic.twitter.com\/DkC9MPJght<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Gorham (@NicholasGorham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicholasGorham\/status\/774711615908347904\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Urban Outfitters is normally under fire for selling controversial tees and beauty products, but this ...","author":422344,"featured_media":89378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/22102226\/shutterstock_436642309-660x400.gif","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/22102226\/shutterstock_436642309.gif","formated_date":"September 22, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#45c688","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}