Michigan hair salon faces backlash after banning transgender and queer customers, reportedly telling them to ‘seek services at a local pet groomer’

• A salon in Michigan is facing backlash after announcing it wouldn’t serve all LGBTQ+ people.
• Studio 8 Hair Lab received an onslaught of negative reviews following the since-deleted post.
• Co-owner Christine Geiger said on Facebook she only takes issue with the “TQ+” part of the community.

A hair salon and its owner in Traverse City, Michigan is facing backlash after announcing that it would refuse service to queer and transgender people.

Studio 8 Hair Lab said in a post last weekend that it would not serve anyone who identifies “as anything other than a man/woman,” USA Today reported. The Facebook post, which has since been deleted, suggested that anyone not matching that identity should instead “seek services at a local pet groomer,” according to the report.