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Publix refuses to write the word 'trans' in icing on a cake.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:30 pm
A Florida pro-transgender activist is demanding an apology from southern grocery chain Publix after a bakery worker refused to put 'trans people deserve joy' in icing on a cake.
Yasmin Flasterstein, 28, was purchasing the cake as part of her work with an Orlando non-profit organization called Peer Support Space, which helps vulnerable people with mental illness, trauma and other problems.
In late April, she was working on a membership drive to produce care packages for transgender people and wanted to add a cake to celebrate as part of campaign called 'Spread Trans Joy.'
She went to a Publix location on Colonial Drive in Orlando and asked for it to say 'trans people deserve joy' when Flasterstein said she got a confused look from the bakery worker.
Flasterstein - who is not transgender but co-founded Peer Support Space with a trans friend - claims she received a cake that only said 'people deserve joy' and asked to speak to the manager.
They could not write that 'trans people deserve joy' on the cake because it would be taking a stance and that Publix isn't allowed to take a stance on the issue,' she told Orlando Weekly.
She argued that refusing to write the word trans on cake was telling them 'they're not worthy of joy' and was a stance.
Flasterstein claimed that the manager of the bakery appeared 'on the brink of crying,' offering her space at the top of the cake and icing so she could write it herself.
After writing about the incident on Facebook, she received responses in the comments from Publix's Facebook account.
'We are sorry that our associates did not handle your request appropriately. Please message us for more details, and we will gladly make the cake,' the account wrote.
She responded: 'I appreciate the apology. I'm glad Publix does want to write, 'Trans people deserve joy on a cake.' But I think that their apology falls short of what we deserved in response to what happened.'
Flasterstein added that she wanted the company 'to be accountable' to their policy for the confusion it caused and to make it so this doesn't happen again.
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Yasmin Flasterstein, 28, was purchasing the cake as part of her work with an Orlando non-profit organization called Peer Support Space, which helps vulnerable people with mental illness, trauma and other problems.
In late April, she was working on a membership drive to produce care packages for transgender people and wanted to add a cake to celebrate as part of campaign called 'Spread Trans Joy.'
She went to a Publix location on Colonial Drive in Orlando and asked for it to say 'trans people deserve joy' when Flasterstein said she got a confused look from the bakery worker.
Flasterstein - who is not transgender but co-founded Peer Support Space with a trans friend - claims she received a cake that only said 'people deserve joy' and asked to speak to the manager.
They could not write that 'trans people deserve joy' on the cake because it would be taking a stance and that Publix isn't allowed to take a stance on the issue,' she told Orlando Weekly.
She argued that refusing to write the word trans on cake was telling them 'they're not worthy of joy' and was a stance.
Flasterstein claimed that the manager of the bakery appeared 'on the brink of crying,' offering her space at the top of the cake and icing so she could write it herself.
After writing about the incident on Facebook, she received responses in the comments from Publix's Facebook account.
'We are sorry that our associates did not handle your request appropriately. Please message us for more details, and we will gladly make the cake,' the account wrote.
She responded: 'I appreciate the apology. I'm glad Publix does want to write, 'Trans people deserve joy on a cake.' But I think that their apology falls short of what we deserved in response to what happened.'
Flasterstein added that she wanted the company 'to be accountable' to their policy for the confusion it caused and to make it so this doesn't happen again.
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Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:32 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
Get your cake at a store that will.
Crazy, I know.
Crazy, I know.
This post was edited on 5/12/23 at 10:50 pm
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:32 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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pro-transgender activist
quote:Perfect definition.
people with mental illness
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:32 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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She responded: 'I appreciate the apology. I'm glad Publix does want to write, 'Trans people deserve joy on a cake.' But I think that their apology falls short of what we deserved in response to what happened.' Flasterstein added that she wanted the company 'to be accountable' to their policy for the confusion it caused and to make it so this doesn't happen again.
This is why you never give an inch.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:34 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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Peer Support Space, which helps vulnerable people with mental illness, trauma and other problems.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:34 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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Yasmin Flasterstein
Oy vey
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:34 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
If gender is a social construct why do they fall back on gender constructs like long hair and makeup when defining what a woman is?
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:35 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
I miss every thread being about covid
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:35 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
I'd love to see a Ben and Jerry's have to write "MAGA forever" on one of their desserts
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:38 pm to East Coast Band
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I'd love to see a Ben and Jerry's have to write "MAGA forever" on one of their desserts
They have no problem writing “FAGA Forever”.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:40 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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“We are sorry that our associates did not handle your request appropriately. Please message us for more details, and we will gladly make the cake,' the account wrote.
Makes cake.
Cake: frick OFF
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:41 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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Flasterstein
Usual subversionists.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:42 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
Publix cubano deli sandwich on French bread. Give it a try.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:43 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
Stop worrying about cake and find a psychologist. She wont be alive in five years with that mental illness to eat cake after killing herself.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:49 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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which helps vulnerable people with mental illness,
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'Spread Trans Joy.'
Good effin grief. Grown arse adults that have the pea brain of a caterpillar
Do not entertain someone’s mental illness. Do not celebrate someone’s mental illness. This shite is not about being intolerant. I’m the fricking one that wants to help these folks, not these people. They are helping to push them down the road to a hellish life. If you care about them, recognize the problem and try to help them. Not help them with fricking cakes and shite. Get them the help they need.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 10:52 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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claims she received a cake that only said 'people deserve joy' and asked to speak to the manager.
She argued that refusing to write the word trans on cake was telling them 'they're not worthy of joy' and was a stance.
Are they not people???
This post was edited on 5/13/23 at 12:01 am
Posted on 5/12/23 at 11:02 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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mental illness
Nailed it
Posted on 5/12/23 at 11:10 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
This was handled poorly by everyone involved.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 11:14 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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This is why you never give an inch.
Exactly. Publix "admitted guilt".
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Flasterstein added that she wanted the company 'to be accountable'
Now she wants to get paid.
And isn't even a tranny.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 11:52 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
this bitch is borderline, narcissistic, and thus manipulative as frick
of course she's an 'activist' looking for trouble. people like her should be put in the stocks and bullwhipped.
of course she's an 'activist' looking for trouble. people like her should be put in the stocks and bullwhipped.
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