{"id":304,"date":"2021-04-28T09:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T09:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T09:59:37","slug":"ceo-fired-after-publicly-ridiculing-tennessee-teen-for-his-prom-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/304\/ceo-fired-after-publicly-ridiculing-tennessee-teen-for-his-prom-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO fired after publicly ridiculing Tennessee teen for his prom dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CEO of telemedicine company VisuWell in Tennessee, got fired for publicly making fun of male Franklin High School senior Dalton Stevens for wearing a dress to prom with his boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>    <picture>\r\n                <img src=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dalton-stevens-prom-dress.jpg\"\r\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dalton-stevens-prom-dress.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dalton-stevens-prom-dress-300x276.jpg 300w\"             sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\"\r\n             width=\"421\"\r\n             height=\"388\"\r\n             alt=\"dalton-stevens-prom-dress\"\r\n             loading=\"lazy\"             decoding=\"async\"\r\n             class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-307\" >\r\n    <\/picture>\r\n    <\/p>\n<p>Stevens felt good wearing it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI very much view clothes as genderless,\u201d said Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very confident,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cI knew that I felt beautiful, and I felt great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/national\/ceo-fired-after-publicly-ridiculing-tennessee-teen-over-his-prom-dress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/national\/ceo-fired-after-publicly-ridiculing-tennessee-teen-over-his-prom-dress\/<\/a> )<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His boyfriend, Jacon Geittmann, supported him all the way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe did his big \u2018prom-posal\u2019 and asked me to prom,\u201d said Jacob Geittman, Stevens\u2019 boyfriend. \u201cAnd he decided he was going to wear a dress, and I\u2019m like, \u2018Okay! You\u2019re going to look good in it!&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The harassment from the CEO, later identified as Sam Johnson, took place in downtown Franklin at the Harpeth Hotel, while Steven and Geittman were taking pictures.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSlander terms thrown towards me of like \u2018You look bad,\u2019 \u2018You\u2019ve got hair on your chest, you shouldn\u2019t be wearing a dress,\u2019 \u2018You\u2019re not a man,\u2019 blah, blah, blah,\u201d Stevens explained. \u201cThe fact that he thought he had the audacity to come tell me what I was supposed to wear and what I was supposed to do because of his standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>..\u201cI think clothing should just be taken as a piece of cloth and nothing more,\u201d said Stevens. \u201cEverybody should just wear what they want and shouldn\u2019t be ashamed to wear anything because of societal standards.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The public shaming was caught on cell phone video by Geittman, and Johnson was fired Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou can have your thoughts and opinions, [but] keep them to yourself,\u201d Geittman said. \u201cYou don\u2019t need to go up to a teenager in public on their prom night and publicly shame and harass them for what they decided to wear.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Under the leadership of a anti LGBTQ CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VisuWell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@VisuWell<\/a> is not qualified to provide best care for our communities.<br \/>\nSam Johnson, CEO of VisuWell harassing a trans kid <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EHXn72MAt1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/EHXn72MAt1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Island Girl ????? (@DearGoodPeople) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DearGoodPeople\/status\/1386809029708505089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>VisuWell posted their support for the LGBTQ community on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VisuWell\/status\/1386804411498967041?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We share the concerns that so many have expressed on this matter and look forward to announcing concrete steps we are taking in support of the LGBTQ community in particular over the coming weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>#BeYou<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CEO of telemedicine company VisuWell in Tennessee, got fired for publicly making fun of male Franklin High School senior Dalton Stevens for wearing a dress to prom with his boyfriend. Stevens felt good wearing it: \u201cI very much view &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/304\/ceo-fired-after-publicly-ridiculing-tennessee-teen-for-his-prom-dress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[259,255,260,256,209,258,257],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story","tag-ceo-fired","tag-dalton-stevens","tag-harassment","tag-jacon-geittmann","tag-lgbtq","tag-sam-johnson","tag-visuwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}