Popular homeware chain Briscoes, has apologised after a transgender customer says she was repeatedly misgendered by a store employee.
Mary Haddock-Staniland a global diversity inclusion executive, who goes by she/her pronouns, said the incident left her feeling “humiliated, embarrassed and upset”.
The Auckland woman went to Briscoes in Botany on Sunday to collect items from the click and collect.
After approaching the counter, Haddock-Staniland said she gave the store employee her name along with her driver’s licence to verify her identity.
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This is truly amazing. “Mary Haddock-Staniland a global diversity inclusion executive” Now, if she is an “executive” presumably there is some sort of organisation relating to “global diversity inclusion.” I would be interested to know what it is. If her photograph is authentic, I don’t know how anyone could think she was a bloke, maybe Briscoes shouldn’t hire short sighed deaf people. It really is a mountain out of a mole hill, I guess it must have been “a slow news day” at STUFFED DOT CON