| Jul. 4th, 2008 @ 01:43 am [USA] Bi Personals Site Boots Trans Member |
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Current Location: Boston MA USA
Current Mood:  shocked
Current Music: "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister
as reported in Bay Windows by Ethan Jacobs staff reporter
Wednesday July 2nd 2008 and UPDATED July 3 2008
When Nick Teich created a free account on the online personals site BisexualDatingNow.com last week, he decided to disclose that he is transgender. Perhaps he shouldn’t have.
"They say, tell us about yourself in your own words. And I stated, ’I’m a 25-year old trans guy living in Boston.’ . . . I didn’t want to mislead anyone looking at my profile, so that’s why I put that," said Teich. Within a day he had received three "smiles," which members send to express their interest in getting to know each other.
Teich thought little of his decision until he wrote to the site’s customer service staff about a problem he was having using the site. He exchanged e-mails with a customer service representative named Kiar Dupuis, and after reading his profile Dupuis informed him that the site does not allow transgender users.
"I am sorry, as a transgender, our site would not meet your needs. I am afraid we have to remove your profile," wrote Dupuis, according to an e-mail provided to Bay Windows by Teich. His profile was deleted shortly after he received the e-mail.
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we are x-posting this, we originally found this info on ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ftmichael's post on ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ourqueerfamily and neverbeuseless's post on gsa_lj but it's quickly spereading across the internet, it's now on "Pams House Blend" too. That'll get some action for sure!
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