Christian Dressing Room Beliefs

Macy's allows transgendered people to use dressing rooms of their self-identified gender. An employee was fired for forbidding a transgender woman from using the women's dressing room. Her Christian beliefs tell her that transgendered people cannot and do not exist. She and the Liberty Counsel are suing for religious discrimination.

Johnson filed a complaint with the Federal Employment Commission, claiming her religious beliefs prevent her from recognizing transgender people.[1]

“There are no transgenders in the world. A guy can dress up as a woman all he wants. That’s still not going to make you a woman,” Johnson said. “If you’re a man going into the women’s fitting room, I will kindly escort you to the men’s fitting room.”[2]

A conservative Christian organization, Liberty Counsel defines marriage as between a (biological) man and woman. They have characterized the rise of GLBT rights as “a radical agenda… seriously out of touch with mainstream American values.”

“Macy’s has essentially opened women’s dressing rooms to every man,” said Liberty Counsel founder Mathew Staver. He is pushing for the department store to add a third dressing room for transgender individuals or change their policy.

Liberty Counsel’s position on transgender rights diverges from most Americans’ and even most Christians’ opinions.

More than 8-in-10 evangelical Protestants and more than 9-in-10 Catholics and mainline Protestants agree that transgender people should have the same rights and protections as everyone else, according to a recent Public Religion Research survey.

Additionally, about 75 percent of Americans favored Congress’ expansion of hate crime legislation to protect transgender people.[3]