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the-movemnt:

South Dakota transgender woman denied entrance to soup kitchen for wearing a dress

• On Saturday morning, Isabella Red Cloud, a transgender woman, drove with a friend to Union Gospel Mission in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, hoping to get some breakfast. 
  
• She says was refused service because she was wearing a dress. She fired up Facebook Live and recorded her being kicked off the premises.
  
• The video, viewed over 13,000 times, shows an unnamed employee escorting Red Cloud out the building’s entrance. 
  
• When she asks the employee on camera if she’s being asked to leave because of her dress, he seems to answer affirmatively. 
• The employee repeatedly tells Red Cloud she’s “trespassing.”
  
• Red Cloud told KDLT, “I cried, I contemplated suicide, I felt sad, I felt weak.” However, she returned the next day to attend church service. 
  
• Red Cloud was once again told she could not be on the church’s property. A friend documented the second incident on Facebook Live.
  
• Union Gospel Mission director Fran Stenberg told the Argus Leader that Red Cloud’s case is not exceptional: She’s asked trans people to leave for wearing dresses on multiple occasions. Read more (4/25/17)
  

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Union Gospel is notorious in our area for not only its cruelty to trans people, but its dehumanizing and disgusting behavior in general. 

By word of mouth I heard they were forcing homeless people to pay for drug tests that they would be forcibly subjected to if they wanted to take shelter from the freezing temperatures.

UGM sees tragedy as an opportunity to push their own agenda.