A North Carolina woman is claiming that she was fired from her barista job at Starbucks after criticizing the store's use of a "pronoun board" during Pride Month.
In a video recently uploaded to TikTok, Taylor Marie Trice claims that she was dismissed from her job of two years after she took issue with the store's use of a board to display pronouns and sexual orientations during Pride Month in 2022.
"June came around, and as we all know, June is the month of tasting the rainbow. I had been working at Starbucks for about two years at that point. I was used to Starbucks putting up their [pride] decorations and stuff during the month of June. And throughout that time, no one had ever made a complaint about me being homophobic, transphobic, whatever," she says in the clip.
She said the store put up a glass wall display showing various "sexual attraction definitions" and a chalkboard describing "Neo-pronouns."
Trice says in the video, "I did not shame them for it, but I told them that they have to be careful. We have families walking in here and kids are going to read that. And I specifically said, even if the glass wall described heterosexual, I just did not feel like this needed to be added to the decorations!"
She said that co-workers accused her of being a "homophobic Christian," and said that while she was "willing to avoid using pronouns" she would not "lie," and said, "If I say that you are a man and I call you a woman, that is lying, and that is identifying you as something that God did not create you to be."
Starbucks Media Relations Team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Publica, which originally reported on the video.
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