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A YOUNG bisexual woman claims she was thrown out of a gay club in Glasgow for wearing an LGB Alliance T-shirt.
She says she was kicked out after complaints from trans people in the club who saw the top as "threatening".
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Videoing herself on the street, the woman told how bouncers left her outside in the freezing cold, with no jacket and without her other belongings.
After the video was posted online, a huge row erupted online with many having a go at staff for their treatment of the woman.
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But others hit back, claiming she deserved to be chucked out for supporting a group which excludes trans people.
And a staff member from Polo also hit out at her.
The video was posted online by a Nicole Jones, who does not appear to be the person in the video.
She wrote: "A young bisexual woman was just kicked out of @PoloGlasgow for wearing an @AllianceLGB t-shirt due to complaints from trans people. Clearly, lesbians, gays and bisexuals are no longer welcome in “LGBT+” spaces. #LGBAllianceScotland."
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In the video, the woman says: "I was just kicked out of Polo because I wouldn't reverse my T-shirt. I literally was just taken into a cupboard and they started filming me after they told me that I had to turn my T-shirt inside out because there had been so many complaints from trans people. And they just kicked me out of the back door without my jacket, my keys or anything.
"They took me into a fire escape with no CCTV or anything like that.
"I just can't believe this, this is absolutely mad. So this is Polo Club in Glasgow and I've just been to the LGB Alliance, and I've just been removed because trans people said I was threatening them or something.
"So I said 'why don't I have the right to support lesbians, gays and bisexuals, but they've got some sort of weird ultimate power where they can get my kicked out of a club because they don't like an acronym on a T-shirt?'
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"So they (security) had no good answer for it, they just said 'You're going to have to leave if you don't turn your T-shirt inside out, and now I'm outside and I don't have any of my stuff.
"What the f**k am I supposed to do? This is absolutely ridiculous."
Opinion on the issue was very polarised and a row erupted on Twitter.
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One said: "Sexual Orientation is apparently no longer a protected characteristic. @PoloGlasgow. It’s January in Glasgow, no coat, no keys, young woman out in the street because of her T-shirt supporting LGB people."
Another argued: "So she wore a transphobic shirt and got kicked out of a trans-inclusive environment? And we’re supposed to be mad because...?"
A Polo Lounge worker also slammed the woman and her t-shirt, saying: "If she'd changed out of her s****y t-shirt none of this would have happened so she can sit down and stop playing the victim."
Polo Lounge and LGB Alliance have been contacted for comment.
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