Trans-woman attacked at a mall

Interesting story, one which hits kinda close to home because I've had an experience that was very similar to this.

First, the woman's story:

...the cashier unleashed a torrent of hateful comments. “He called me a faggot and told me to fuck off,” said Vaughan.

“I was completely shocked,” she said. A security guard then approached her, and according to Vaughan, asked her to leave. “I have to remove the problem,” the security officer said to Vaughan. “I wasn’t the problem, he was,” she replied, and he asked her to leave again. (gayrva.com)

Crabtree Valley Mall (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now, my story. I was in Durham, N.C. on a business trip. During the day, I was in boy mode, once the work day was over, I would go straight back to the hotel, get into my girlie clothes, put on makeup, and then I headed out and about. I decided that a mall should be a safe place, so I went to the Crabtree Valley Mall. I walked in, and headed straight to Sephora.

Sephora has a reputation for being very trans* friendly - I figured that I could go there to boost my confidence being out. And I figured I could have one of Sephora's makeup artists to help me pick out some foundation while I was there.  :)

Things seemed to start out okay, one of the Sephora people walked up to me and asked what I wanted. I explained what I needed, and she told me "sure, let me go get one of our makeup artists." All well and good, right?

10 minutes passed. Then fifteen. I saw the makeup artist standing at the back of the store, just looking at me. One of her associates came over to talk to her, and the makeup artists said "I don't care, I am not going to help one of those." Eventually, one of Sephora's managers came out and apologized. I said something unintelligible, and then fled out of the shop, out of the mall, out of the parking garage.

So much for getting my confidence up!!!  :P