There is a nude Russian bathhouse in San Francisco called Archimedes Banya. Recently the spa announced a Women Only Night which was to be held once a month. This immediately created controversy because the spa’s website made it clear that they were talking about “biological women” only. Someone posted this outrage to Reddit where it created the predictable outrage.
The language was quickly updated to “sex assigned at birth,” but eagle-eyed Redditors noticed the original wording and shared receipts. “[They] changed the language to obfuscate the transphobia under the guise of religious accommodation,” wrote wordsthatoutliveus, who posted the screenshots to the San Francisco subreddit. Another screenshot posted to Yelp showed the bathhouse also initially changed its men’s night to be for “BIOLOGICAL MEN” only before updating the language.
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