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submitted 2 months ago by atro_city@fedia.io to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

Staff at the DWP reportedly objected to the clothes of Saorsa-Amatheia Tweedale, a trans woman who co-chairs the LGBT+ Civil Service Network

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[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] riskable@programming.dev 37 points 2 months ago

There's a big problem here: Every kind of clothing is "fetish clothing" to someone.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 22 points 2 months ago

"Phwoar! Most of the people in this hospital are wearing nurse's uniforms! Kinky!"

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah a nice pair of jeans are absolutely a form of fetish gear and a traditional one no less

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
[-] flamingmongoose 2 points 2 months ago

There are people with a raincoat fetish.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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 the next front in the culture war. We should take a leaf out of the Democrat's playbook and refuse to engage them, as this is just weird.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 14 points 2 months ago

On TERF Island, clothing not corresponding to one’s biological sex is legally considered “fetish gear”

[-] frazorth@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

Ah, a nice normal American that loves judging other countries without realising what the fuck is going on locally.

[-] wren@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago

I don't have a telegraph account - someone summarise?

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 19 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago

I'll go one better. Here is the archive.

[-] tombruzzo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] kralk@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago
[-] Streamwave@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

I cannot believe this even needed to be clarified in the first place

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