Staff at the DWP reportedly objected to the clothes of Saorsa-Amatheia Tweedale, a trans woman who co-chairs the LGBT+ Civil Service Network
There’s a big problem here: Every kind of clothing is “fetish clothing” to someone.
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Staff at the DWP reportedly objected to the clothes of Saorsa-Amatheia Tweedale, a trans woman who co-chairs the LGBT+ Civil Service Network
There’s a big problem here: Every kind of clothing is “fetish clothing” to someone.
“Phwoar! Most of the people in this hospital are wearing nurse’s uniforms! Kinky!”
Yeah a nice pair of jeans are absolutely a form of fetish gear and a traditional one no less
There are people with a raincoat fetish.
“wear low-cut black corsets, fishnet tights with high heels and a gothic choker with a pentagram”
My friend would like to know where, exactly, this is, so a complaint may be filed.
Surely this goes without saying.
What’s wrong with people nowadays? Standards are just dropping across the board
I feel like before I can form an opinion, I need to see the outfit in question. There is a description, but it’s not very detailed and not exactly from a neutral source. As described though, it sounds like she was dressed like Dr. Frankenfurter, with a choker instead of a pearl necklace. Which… Yea, that’s not a workplace outfit for a civil servant.
But then again, it could be tame as hell. I have no idea. Because despite writing an article about it, apparently a photo is just too much to expect from modern journalism.
It’s probably about lingerie, bandage, butt plugs, etc.
There really is no plausible ‘fetish outfit’ that could possibly under any circumstances be appropriate for work at the Civil Service.
It does make me wonder if they know what fetish gear looks like but going by the photo of the Baroness, I doubt she’d recognised it if it walked up to her in the street and asked for her safe word.
Depending on the dress code, this is, at best, an HR issue but it seems like the Tory press are trying to make it a culture wa
On TERF Island, clothing not corresponding to one’s biological sex is legally considered “fetish gear”
Ah, a nice normal American that loves judging other countries without realising what the fuck is going on locally.
People say TERF island as if when you leave Britain everywhere is ok with trans people. It’s a bit of a stupid buzzword.
One of my friends in the civil service said they have this kind of internal linkedin/facebook thing that virtually no one uses. However they have some kind of craigslist style functionality and she saw someone trying to sell used sex toys on there.
Mr skinner and Mrs krebapple were in the closet making babies and I saw the baby and it looked at me
Is it Yammer because even the IT department refused to use it.
That name rings a bell but would need to double check with my friend. She said it was basically a ghost town with only a few really eccentric posts.
I don’t have a telegraph account - someone summarise?
Here's an archive of the page.
Ms Tweedale, 58, is said to wear low-cut black corsets, fishnet tights with high heels and a gothic choker with a pentagram when she attends the office.
She's trans and her attire led to a minister stating that kind of "fetish gear" cannot be worn at work. Others working with her say it's highly inappropriate and unprofessional. That's the gist of it.
Good luck enforcing this. My regular belt is a hobble belt I bought from a fetish gear maker. I’d be in the office technically able to whip out a leather restraint at a moment’s notice.
I hope people in her office start wearing their own freaky gear in solidarity
I cannot believe this even needed to be clarified in the first place
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