{"id":52804,"date":"2015-06-24T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52804"},"modified":"2015-06-24T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T16:31:00","slug":"transgenders-advocates-question-valkyries-no-crossdresser-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/24\/transgenders-advocates-question-valkyries-no-crossdresser-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgenders, advocates question Valkyrie\u2019s \u2018no crossdresser policy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52808\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Valkyrie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52808\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Valkyrie.png\" alt=\"Valkyrie Club logo (Photo courtesy of Manila Clubbing)\" width=\"635\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Valkyrie.png 635w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Valkyrie-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valkyrie Club logo (Photo courtesy of Manila Clubbing)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Top fashion designer and transgender woman Veejay Floresca, among other transgenders and human rights advocates, questioned high-end bar Valkyrie\u2019s \u2018no crossdressing policy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Floresca was denied access in the bar despite showing her California State ID, indicating her female name and gender preference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was denied twice. They said they have a no-crossdressers policy\u2026 I propose they should change the dress code policy,\u201d Floresca said in a Rappler report.<\/p>\n<p>Floresca then called on the high-end club to lift the ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt bad not for myself but for other transgender women who don&#8217;t have female IDs, who were embarrassed, who felt discriminated,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, transgender celebrities and rights advocates had also aired their distress in social media regarding Valkyrie\u2019s \u2018discriminating\u2019 policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018No Crossdressing Policy\u2019 in any establishment is so THIRD WORLD. If Valkyrie implements this crap, I will pull out my very small share,\u201d TV host Vice Ganda said in Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cValkyrie? C&#8217;mon. Disrimination of transgenders and \u2018cross dressing\u2019 is so 1990s. So Giraffe era,\u201d performing artist and rights activist Carlos Celdran said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDenial of entry to any establishment because of one\u2019s gender (or identity in general, for that matter) is very dehumanizing,\u201d trans advocate Janlee Dungca said in her Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Valkyrie, for their part, had not yet released an official statement regarding the issue raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Top fashion designer and transgender woman Veejay Floresca, among other transgenders and human rights advocates, questioned high-end bar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":52808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}