A transgender woman was filmed confronting a GameStop employee for misgendering her on Thursday. The reaction to the confrontation online has been ripe with transphobia as the story became a right-wing flashpoint about liberals being “triggered” amid a wave of finger-pointing headlines like “Transgender woman freaks out.” Featured Video Hide A Facebook user named Tom Smith posted the video, according to conservative news outlet the Daily Wire, which shows the woman upset at a GameStop employee in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, store. The video starts mid-incident, but the woman can be heard saying “No, we’re not doing credit. You’re going to give me my fucking money back.” Advertisement Hide Another woman can be heard off-screen saying, “Excuse me, sir, there’s a young man in here. You need to watch your mouth.” The transgender woman quickly responded by saying, “Excuse me, it’s ma’am. It is ma’am,” before telling the other customer to “mind her business.” The video then focuses back on the confrontation between the woman and the GameStop employee. The employee insinuates that he was trying to say “both you guys” in an effort to move the store’s customers along. Advertisement Hide “Right beforehand you fucking said ‘sir,’” the woman replied. “Sir…” the employee says before audibly catching himself. “Motherfucking take it outside. If you want to call me sir again, I will show you a fucking sir,” the transgender woman responds. “I apologize, I apologize,” the employee quickly says. The woman can be seen beginning to leave the store, kicking over a display of products, before demanding a corporate phone number to report the employee. The two go back and forth for a moment. Advertisement Hide The conversation appears to break down further, with the woman becoming visibly and audibly more frustrated when she isn’t given the corporate phone number quickly. The woman again makes for the store’s exit, saying that the employee is “disrespecting trans people in your store, which I plan on telling the entire LGBT community. You’re going to lose money over this.” Outlets like the Daily Mail and LouderWithCrowder have posted the story as spectacle, using transphobic terms and descriptors like “aggressive” to describe the woman. In turn, reactions to their stories have largely been a hodgepodge of transphobia. Trans people and allies on Twitter, however, have expressed sympathy for the woman in the video, noting that trans people are so often misgendered and berated, they could understand how she grew frustrated and broke down. The trans woman in that video proably gets treated like shit in every part of her life. Back when I was dealing with intesnse transmisogyny from family, a roommate, and my workplace at the same time, I was ready to go off on anybody who was even a little disrespectful. — ✨ Mallorie Jessica Udischas✨ (@SweetBeans99) December 29, 2018 https://twitter.com/RealAmandaRae/status/1078699391723159552 Advertisement Hide the video of that trans woman in gamestop is so heartbreaking :( nobody deserves to be treated like that — ☆ (@ughzamina) December 28, 2018 Trans community: hey can you pls stop killing us? Maybe even think about giving us basic human rights Media: OMFG TRANS COMMUNITY DEMANDS GENDER INCLUSIVE GINGERBREAD PEOPLE!?!? ! TC: okay bu- M: LOOK AT THIS VIDEO OF A TRANS WOMAN BREAKING DOWN IN A GAMESTOP!! — Wednesdae Atoms (@Iz_The_Gemini) December 29, 2018 I think why the angry trans woman at GameStop video hit me so hard is I've come _so_ close to being her so often. The people laughing at her may as well be laughing at me. — Neovagina Evangelion 20.20 (@RaeGun2k) December 29, 2018 https://twitter.com/gaysharpay/status/1078839266510282752 The Daily Dot has reached out to GameStop for comment multiple times by email, phone, and via Twitter, but has yet to hear a response. The Daily Dot also called all the GameStop stores in the area; GameStop employees stated they were not allowed to comment on the incident. They would not say where that directive came from, but one employee did tell the Daily Dot that the incident occurred at one of the stores on Coors Boulevard in Albuquerque. Advertisement Hide The original link to the video, by a Tom Smith, has been taken down. The Daily Dot has been unable to locate either Tom Smith. Update 1:55pm CT, Jan. 4: Tiffany Moore, the woman featured in the video, reached out to the Daily Dot to explain what wasn’t seen in the footage. She said the GameStop employee in the video had misgendered her “at least five times” before the recording began. “I would not have reacted like that if I hadn’t been so blatantly disrespected,” Moore explained. She also pointed out her concern about another customer’s threat to call the police, which was recorded in the video. “Trans people don’t have great interactions with the cops,” she said. Since the video went viral, she has had concerns for her safety. “I’ve been holed up at my parents’ property since the 26th,” she said, referring to when the video started to take off. “I literally have no income coming in. It’s taking my ability to take care of myself away from me, it’s taking my livelihood away from me.” Advertisement Hide Moore said she had been unable to retain an attorney but hopes that GameStop will learn from the incident. “All I want is for GameStop is to include trans sensitivity training in their hiring process,” she said.<doc-sep>A transgender woman threw a tantrum at a GameStop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after claiming the cashier called him “sir” instead of “ma’am.” The trans woman then threatened to “take it outside” with the male store clerk and also wanted the number of the corporate offices to file a complaint. After much cursing and rage expressed, another patron called him sir and asked him to leave the store, in a video released Friday. “If you call me a sir again, I will show you an (expletive) sir!” he said. (RELATED: Bar Hopping With Liberals On Election Night) Watch some of The Daily Caller News Foundation’s other videos and subscribe to our YouTube channel to make sure you never miss out. SUBSCRIBE HERE! Check out the most recent videos by TheDCNF: Is Thanksgiving Racist? Super Bowl Or See Michelle Obama Speak? Do You Really Need An ID To Purchase Cereal? Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.<doc-sep>ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, January 15, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The irate “transgender” man who went viral for chewing out a GameStop employee who called him “sir” has gone public, telling local media he has no regrets about his behavior at the video game retailer. Earlier this month, LifeSiteNews reported on the video, which shows a man angrily attempting to return a purchase then swearing at the man behind the counter and another customer who called him “sir.” Despite his masculine face, voice, and physique, the customer demanded to be regarded as “ma’am” because “quite clearly I am not” male. The individual has since been identified as "Tiffany" Moore, a local rapper, who spoke to KOB 4 about the incident in an interview released Monday. "I was so angry at that point because, literally, five or six times he had called me Sir. He got me so fuming angry and I was cussing," Moore said, lamenting that the incident brought “so many bigots out of the woodwork” as evidenced by mocking posts and images shared on social media. "We're humans just like you,” Moore stressed, despite the fact that virtually no critic of “gender fluidity” questions the humanity or personhood of the gender-confused. “We're people just like you. We have kids. We have parents. We have brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, we're just trying to live." As for raising his voice, swearing multiple times (allegedly in the presence of at least one child), and kicking over a display, Moore declared that he doesn’t regret his behavior. "Yeah, I could have reacted a whole lot better. But you know what, I look back at it and if I could, I wouldn't change a single thing,” he said. “I would do it 100,000 times again. I would kick over that display 100,000 times again. Because my actions were justified. I mean, it was blatant and malicious hate. It was blatant and malicious misgendering." Moore added that the incident has inspired him to write a song and plan a music video about “transgender awareness.” GameStop initially refused to publicly comment on the incident, but following KOB’s broadcast, they released a statement professing respect for the “transgender community,” standing by their employee’s handling of the situation, and promising greater sensitivity in the future. “GameStop prides itself on having a very diverse workforce” and serves “everyone who enters our stores regardless of gender or gender expression,” the company said. While this particular incident was “unfortunate,” they concluded, “our associate acted professionally after mis-speaking by apologizing and remaining calm to de-escalate the situation.” “Like other corporations committed to inclusiveness, we are continually learning,” GameStop concluded. “This incident reminds us to continue pursuing efforts to ensure GameStop remains a diverse, inclusive culture that celebrates every person’s unique value.” While LGBT activists insist that being a man or woman is strictly a matter of self-perception, in reality sex is rooted in an individual’s chromosomes and reflected by hundreds of genetic characteristics. The American Psychiatric Association still classifies gender dysphoria as a mental disorder, as did the World Health Organization until last summer. Gender confusion has been linked to a variety of long-term ills, including higher suicide rates.<doc-sep>
Gamestop is standing by its employee after a video of a transgender woman throwing a fit inside a New Mexico store and accusing the employee of “misgendering” her went viral. “The incident that occurred between Tiffany Moore and our GameStop associate was unfortunate,” Gamestop said in a statement Tuesday. “We believe our associate acted professionally after mis-speaking by apologizing and remaining calm to de-escalate the situation.” A video of the December incident showed Tiffany Moore, a transgender mom, screaming at a cashier for calling her “sir.” “Ma’am! Once again, ‘ma’am!,” Ms. Moore yells in the video. “If you want to call me sir again, I will show you a f—-ing sir, mother f——er!” She then kicks over a display and demands the company’s corporate number. The cashier, who stays calm throughout the exchange, repeatedly apologizes for the slip and offers to retrieve the number. “I plan on telling the entire LGBTQ community. You’re going to lose money over this,” Ms. Moore says before storming out. Ms. Moore told local news station KOB 4 that she has no regrets about how she acted. “Yeah, I could have reacted a whole lot better,” she said. “But you know what, I look back at it and if I could, I wouldn’t change a single thing. I would do it 100,000 times again. I would kick over that display 100,000 times again. Because my actions were justified. I mean, it was blatant and malicious hate. It was blatant and malicious misgendering.” GameStop said it doesn’t discriminate against anyone and values the diversity of its workforce. “GameStop prides itself on having a very diverse workforce, many of whom are members of the transgender community. We proudly support and serve everyone who enters our stores regardless of gender or gender expression,” the company’s statement added. “Like other corporations committed to inclusiveness, we are continually learning. This incident reminds us to continue pursuing efforts to ensure GameStop remains a diverse, inclusive culture that celebrates every person’s unique value.” The employee in the incident has not been named. *WARNING: Video contains graphic language* Sign up for Daily Newsletters Manage Newsletters Copyright © 2021 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.