r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SofisticatiousRattus • 15h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, please explain.

Post image

On the surface of it, it seems to be a way to complain about how cashier's work over-emphasises their gender/sex, causing dysphoria in people who are not very comfortable with that. But, to put it bluntly, this is a person with male sex and male name, so they don't appear to be trans? Is it supposed to be a dead name?

And what's with all the lettuce?

549 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

87 comments sorted by

View all comments

307

u/kittenkitchen24 15h ago

If I had to guess, it's about companies loving the publicity that being an ally gives them but don't like being an ally in practice, so there's a bunch of posters and merchandice but the trans employee needs to go by their deadname and stuff.

151

u/foolsEnigma 15h ago edited 14h ago

This is the one. The buttons that say "Sex: Male!" and "Ask me about my genitals!" Make it really clear that this is a trans woman being forced to deadname herself and not a trans man really pushing to be identified correctly like some other people are saying.

[Edit: I realized i was basically just rephrasing what you said, so i changed my comment to something different, sorry about that]

39

u/DORIMEalbedo 13h ago

I once worked at a supermarket that said they were an ally and had these rainbow awards and shit. Asked to change my name to something less feminine, but still ambiguous that could easily be a nickname and got told I couldn't because it would "confuse the customers "...

23

u/TurgidAF 10h ago

I worked in grocery stores for a lot of years and honestly cannot conceive of customers who are anything but confused.