Hair salon owner vows to ban customers who specify their pronouns

Anti-woke Michigan hairdresser BANS non-binary people from her salon and suggests they visit PET GROOMER instead

• Studio 8 Hair Lab in Traverse City is refusing service to some LGBTQ+ members
• The salon’s owner, Christine Geiger, said she is exercising her ‘free speech’ 
• Supreme Court ruled in June a woman could refuse service for a gay couple 

A hair salon owner in Michigan has vowed to ban certain members of the LGBTQ+ community who specify their pronouns, saying they are ‘not welcome’ at her salon. 

‘If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman, please seek services at a local pet groomer,’ Studio 8 Hair Lab owner Christine Geiger wrote on Facebook. 

Geiger wrote that she was simply exercising her right to ‘free speech’ as well as her ability as a business owner to ‘refuse services’ to certain customers. 

The post and the account have since been deleted. The salon’s Instagram has been set to private with a caption explaining that they do ‘not cater to woke ideologies.’

The woman’s post comes just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Christian web designer who refused to create a site for a gay couple. 

Christine Geiger (pictured) has vowed to ban certain members of the LGBTQ+ community who specify their pronouns at her salon. saying they are ‘not welcome’

This is the Studio 8 Hair Lab in Traverse City – the salon at the center of the controversy 

‘If a human identifies as anything other than a man/woman, please seek services at a local pet groomer,’ Geiger wrote on Facebook

In the since-deleted post, Geiger wrote that she did not care that she was in violation of a law passed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in March. 

Should you request to have a particular pronoun used please note we may simply refer to you as “hey you”. Regardless of MI HB 4744,” Geiger wrote. 

In March, Gov. Whitmer signed legislation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. 

In her post, Geiger wrote that she as a small business owner is ‘not bound to any oaths as realtors are regarding discrimination.’ 

Under her incendiary comments, she added the hashtag ‘take a stand.’ 

Her post caught the attention of local residents who put her on blast in local Facebook groups, calling out her comments. 

‘This is a real post from a local salon in downtown Traverse City. You are allowed to your opinion but you are not allowed to discriminate [sic],’ the caption read. 

Geiger doubled down on her controversial takes underneath the post and said that she has ‘no issues with LGB. It’s the TQ+ that I’m not going to support.’ 

In her post, Geiger (pictured) wrote that she as a small business owner is ‘not bound to any oaths as realtors are regarding discrimination’

This is the full since-deleted post made by Christine Geiger on Facebook 

In March, Governor Gretchen Whitmer (pictured) signed legislation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 

Continuing on in her lengthy comment, the salon owner said she believes the ‘+’ is code for ‘Minor Attracted Person aka: pedophile.’ 

The ‘+’ in the LGBTQ+ acronym actually represents members of the community who identify with an orientation or identity that isn’t included within the acronym.  

‘It’s an inclusive way of representing gender and sexual identities that letters and words cannot yet fully describe,’ GoodRX Health reports. 

Geiger said she is ‘not willing to play the pronoun game or cater to requests outside of what I perceive as normal’ for her clientele. 

‘Conservatives need to acclimate these woke individuals to their new reality,’ she wrote, adding that she’s ‘HAD ENOUGH of their ideologies.’ 

Her original post and follow up comments received heavy backlash from fellow Traverse City residents who said she was displaying ‘vile behavior.’ 

‘So much for “taking a stand” — post was deleted,’ one person wrote. 

‘Christine, people with your level of hate and ignorance are the reason many people who are struggling take their own lives,’ another angry Facebook user responded. 

‘Imagine someone already struggling with how they are feeling and being on the edge and then reading that they should go to a dog groomer?!’ they wrote. 

Her original post and follow up comments received heavy backlash from fellow Traverse City residents who said she was displaying ‘vile behavior’

‘Christine, people with your level of hate and ignorance are the reason many people who are struggling take their own lives,’ another angry Facebook user responded

One person pointed out that the salon owner appeared to have deleted negative reviews

The woman’s post comes just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Christian web designer who refused to create a site for a gay couple 

Geiger may be emboldened by the recent 6-4 ruling by the Supreme Court in which a Christian web designer refused to design a website for a same-sex wedding.

The ruling overturned a lower court’s decision that Denver-area business owner Lorie Smith was not allowed an exemption from a Colorado law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. 

‘The First Amendment’s protections belong to all, not just to speakers whose motives the government finds worthy,’ wrote Justice Neil Gorsuch for the majority. 

‘In this case, Colorado seeks to force an individual to speak in ways that align with its views but defy her conscience about a matter of major significance.’

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