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Dani Davis was in the women’s restroom at the Walmart where she worked when she heard a man’s voice shouting from outside the stall.
The man yelled a slur for transgender people and said he was going to beat them up, Davis said. She was the only person in the bathroom at the Lake City, Florida, store.
Davis, who is not transgender, said she feared the man thought she was trans because she is 6-foot-4. She hid in the bathroom until the man left and told her supervisor what had happened.
A week later, Walmart fired her.
Davis, 29, said she was told she’d been fired for not reporting the March 14 incident to higher-up managers, creating a “security risk.” Besides losing her job, she said the incident left her terrified at how anti-trans sentiment had led someone to threaten her with violence.
“It was all very scary and heartbreaking and confusing,” Davis said.
Dani Davis was in the women’s restroom at the Walmart where she worked when she heard a man’s voice shouting from outside the stall.
The man yelled a slur for transgender people and said he was going to beat them up, Davis said. She was the only person in the bathroom at the Lake City, Florida, store.
Davis, who is not transgender, said she feared the man thought she was trans because she is 6-foot-4. She hid in the bathroom until the man left and told her supervisor what had happened.
A week later, Walmart fired her.
Davis, 29, said she was told she’d been fired for not reporting the March 14 incident to higher-up managers, creating a “security risk.” Besides losing her job, she said the incident left her terrified at how anti-trans sentiment had led someone to threaten her with violence.
“It was all very scary and heartbreaking and confusing,” Davis said.
