Just days after the story of a transgender woman kicked out of a Dallas gay bar for no reason captured national attention, the bar has announced the firing of the on-duty manager who handled the incident.
JR’s Bar & Grill released a statement on June 6 announcing that the manager on duty that night had been fired for his role in handling the confrontation.
“After reviewing the situation and gathering statements from the parties involved,” the owners said in a statement, “the company has chosen to terminate the employee in question effective immediately. We are against discrimination of any kind, and work diligently with all employees to ensure that our bar is a welcoming space for everyone to celebrate. We respect and value people from all communities and will continue to advocate for diversity and inclusivity.”
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The event sparked outrage after a video of the confrontation between Blair Jirousek, the bar manager (identified only as “Carter”) and bar security went viral on social media. It shows Jirousek arguing with bar security, who refused to admit her because her ID listed her as male. In the video, the security guard shoves her several times before Jirousek leaves with her friend filming the incident, Daniel Heredia. Prior to the events shown in the video, Heredia & Jirousek claim that Carter, the manager, had refused to serve them after checking Jirousek’s ID.
This isn’t the first time a JR’s franchise has come under scrutiny for discriminatory practices. Last year, a Washington, DC location garnered attention after leaked emails showed the manager demanding a black model on bar flyers be replaced with a white man.
Posted by Daniel Heredia on Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Loki
Lesbian feminist writer Julie Bindel was attacked by a trans activist on June 5… no reporting on that?
dwes09
What does one have to do with the other?
Reporting on one story is not discredited by not reporting on another that is less central to a websites obvious purview.
dwes09
@ Loki:
Looked Julie Bindel up, and while her position on transgender people is consistent with the kind of orthodox feminism that has been on the wane since the late 1980’s: very moralistic and demanding close adherence to specific behavior and personal presentation. This was the brand of feminism that only allowed “women born women” into the Michigan Womyns Music Festival, and that dictated only certain sexual acts or positions were appropriate for lesbians.
But she clearly does not do, or encourage violence against transgender folks. She simply adheres to the fading notion that gender expression is entirely a social creation. She ignores the mountain of physiological, psychological, morphological, evolutionary, historic and genetic evidence that indicates real differences between the genders, and actually supports the reality of gender dysmorphia.
But once again, her beliefs, her politics, and the specific incident involved are totally unrelated to this article.
She should be allowed to speak, if only because her beliefs are easy to deconstruct and counter, which the Trans community could have done.
msfrost
Unconfirmed rumor!
Loki
@dwes
She is an advocate for sex-based rights. There is no countering that. Biological reality cannot be countered.
Loki
The attack happened in Scotland and is being reported on in all the legitimate outlets.
PinkoOfTheGange
She was aggressively approached and the other woman was restrained. The other woman claims she had no intention of physically assaulting Bindel only have a verbal confrontation.
The coverage is thin outside of the terf community.
BTW what does that have to do with this?
mr guy
Soooo the obvious man-in-womenface (literally presents as a man with a beard —making no effort at all; or to better intimidate) who lunged at Bindel while screaming “you’re a f*cking c*nt” “you’re a f*cking b*tch” and needed to be restrained by security guards..after making violent threats on against women on Twitter..and btw creepily adopts the name of the l e s b i a n he stalks and harasses..,,gets defended or is given benefit of the doubt from the fake woke (crypto misogynists and l e s b i a n haters) on Queerty….okay. Bonus points for @Dwes Orwellian science denialism dressed up as defence of science
Ingenuity1
It’s sad that a lot of straight and transgender women are invading the gay bars whose functions are primarily for gay men. These women’s drunken, unruly, and aggressive behaviors have ruined the gay bar business across the country. What kind of gay men would want to go to a bar full of women?
wiredpup
IKR. Why can’t we have our own safe spaces too? Oh wait, that makes us ‘transphobic’.
msfrost
That is a sexist statement.
Brian
You’ve never been to a straight bar? They’re full of women.
Kangol2
CastleSF/HereNAgain etc. is that you? Under yet another name/alter ego?
oz1967
WOW guess you have not watched season one of Pose and that’s set in the 80’s along with your hate.
JamJewel
It’s funny how no one complains about the straight guys in gay bars and clubs. But, heavens to murgatroid! a woman in a gay bar is somehow invading spaces when all that bar owner wants 1s to turn a profit. Think he/she cares a wit about you? How many are even owned by a gay person?
Tombear
I liked the bars when they were stricly men’s spaces. My choice is to drink with men only. There are plenty of gay bars that allow women. Keep the few men’s bars that are left, exclusively men
msfrost
Women, are no threat to you.
truthseeker
That’s how it is now. Women and transgender women demand to be allowed in typically male only places but men aren’t allowed in their female only places
Examples: bars, the scouts, gyms, etc. Women can have a women’s only gym but the moment you do a male only gym, here come the pitch forks. The boy scouts must include girls now too but the girl scouts don’t have to include boys.
And if you say anything about it, they’ll scream sexist
Mikey E
Transgenders are nothing but trouble. Where ever they go, strife and conflict follow. Any bar or club would want to keep them out.
MISTERJETT
YOU’RE AN ASS – AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY!!!!
Doug
LOL… when is someone an ass “in a good way?”
Hdtex
Which is why you have ZERO friends.
MISTERJETT
there is no reason or no tolerance for transphobia. it’s LGBT. we’re all in this together.
Brian
These are the same people who would have been talking about uppity negroes not knowing their place 50 years ago.
It’s it really so hard to live and let live?
Mikey E
There’s no such thing as “LGBT.” LGB and T are 2 different groups defined by different criteria. “LGBT” was invented to obscure that fact, and more specifically, to expropriate LGB resources and labor for the benefit of trans activists.
Doug
Thank you.
JamJewel
Mikey E: Stonewall occurred in the 60s and the LGBT acronym evolved in the 80s with the T inclusion to recognize their 60s contribution to Stonewall and to recognize the fact that they are marginalized and murdered in greater numbers than we are.
PinkoOfTheGange
We really need a cool acronym for the guys against transsexuals like the radical feminists have (TERF).
Suggestions?
Brian
PATHETIC. Someone else can come up with the words to make it an acronym.
Hdtex
How about “ASSHOLES”.
exstacym
For starters the FB post by thispersons friends was full of lies. This “trans” person’s name is Ryan and “he” lives as a boy. Not a trans woman. He’s 23 and has lived in Dallas for 5 years. Didn’t his friend say “visiting from New York?” Umm yeah lies for no reason. As a trans person I’m offended by this ignorance but all we did was give this boy what he wanted Fame and attention. I’m also offended by the so called demonstration in cedar springs because not one person marched on city hall for the crimes against the trans women who were murdered. Fine way to show trans lives matter. Clearly it’s important to support a fraud than the ones who died. Not to mention all the LGBT members who have been harrassed and beaten in the past few years and no one does a thing. This was ridiculous and childish. Next time please investigate before making judgements.