A Russian spa in San Francisco named Archimedes Banya stirred up controversy after it excluded transgender people from its “ladies only” night in order to preserve the “phallic-free” space.
The night at the full nude spa is only scheduled once a month, but transgender people and their allies expressed outrage that the spa was trying to exclude biological males from the ladies’ night.
‘Will a phallus-free trans man showing up to their ladies-only night be accepted or rejected? It’s totally unclear.’
“It’s NOT about one night! It’s a symptom of a deeper problem and it’s gonna become worse if we don’t speak up against it now,” said one account on Reddit whose name referred to Satanic themes, according to the San Francisco Standard.
Razelle Swimmer, a transgender person from Oakland who had bottom surgery, canceled a plan to go to the spa as a birthday treat, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Swimmer was infuriated and devastated over the new policy. […]
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