{"id":2523238,"date":"2025-12-19T10:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-chain-pulls-christmas-card-after-woke-journalist-complains-its-transphobic\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:45:22","slug":"major-chain-pulls-christmas-card-after-woke-journalist-complains-its-transphobic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-chain-pulls-christmas-card-after-woke-journalist-complains-its-transphobic\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Chain Pulls Christmas Card After Woke Journalist Complains it&#8217;s &#8216;Transphobic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmajor-chain-pulls-christmas-card-after-woke-journalist-complains-its-transphobic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2523238&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a recent controversy in the UK involving a Christmas card sold by the supermarket chain Sainsbury&#8217;s. The card featured the phrase &#8220;This Christmas, I&#8217;m identifying as a Grinch,&#8221; which was criticized by members of the transgender community as being transphobic. A transgender journalist called for the card&#8217;s removal, arguing that the phrase &#8220;identifying as&#8221; is used as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-fencing-offers-to-ban-transgender-competitors-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"USA Fencing offers to ban ...gender competitors - Washington Examiner\">anti-trans dog whistle<\/a>, implying that gender identity is a choice rather than an inherent part of a person. The card was later withdrawn from stores across the UK,and the companies involved issued apologies,emphasizing that offense was not their intention. Sainsbury&#8217;s responded by affirming their commitment to inclusivity but was less direct about the removal. The article frames this incident within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mass-infighting-brings-progressive-activist-groups-to-a-standstill\/\" title=\"Mass Infighting Brings Progressive Activist Groups to a Standstill\">broader cultural debates<\/a> about gender identity and what it describes as the &#8220;woke&#8221; influence on holiday traditions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s good to see that we&rsquo;ve reached the insanely woke part of the Christmas season. Here I was, thinking it wouldn&rsquo;t come.<\/p>\n<p>See, with the so-called &ldquo;vibes shift&rdquo; still somewhat in effect, the same kind of nonsense that passed muster in the recent past is a bit like a white Christmas in Tallahassee: It probably ain&rsquo;t happening. Most people know better to push the kind of feints the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/freedom-religion-foundation-files-complaint-judge-gives-convicted-police-officer-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freedom From Religion Foundation<\/a> and the kind of people who thought Santa was nonbinary (or whatever), at least at this point in our history.<\/p>\n<p>However, a cold front has apparently moved into Florida&rsquo;s capital, metaphorically speaking, because woke scolds are back, baby &mdash; in Great Britain, at least.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/12\/17\/transphobic-christmas-card-pulled-from-sainsburys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.K. Telegraph<\/a>, Sainsbury&rsquo;s, one of the largest supermarket chains in Merrie England, has removed a card that says &ldquo;This Christmas, I&rsquo;m identifying as a Grinch.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I think that&rsquo;s not especially funny for another reason (who precisely wants to be a Grinch at Christmastime, and why are they buying Christmas cards?), but that&rsquo;s not why the card got the axe.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, a trans journalist (of course) got the card nixed after a post on Bluesky (of course&sup2;) along with a caption saying &ldquo;Please do better Sainsbury&rsquo;s&rdquo; (of course&sup3;).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:gl52ay6nbow4aegcgyt7jge6\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3ma2lqjedps2d\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreifeb2gsioik7qk24vgupx5egzw3x7ldd7bgpmk4kmmxxtnm5zm4hi\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Transphobic Christmas card in my local Sainsbury&rsquo;s (Berryden).<\/p>\n<p>Please do better Sainsbury&rsquo;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:gl52ay6nbow4aegcgyt7jge6\/post\/3ma2lqjedps2d?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sophie Molly (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:gl52ay6nbow4aegcgyt7jge6?ref_src=embed\">@sophiemolly.co.uk<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:gl52ay6nbow4aegcgyt7jge6\/post\/3ma2lqjedps2d?ref_src=embed\">December 16, 2025 at 5:38 AM<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From the Telegraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The phrase &ldquo;identifying as&rdquo; in this context has been described by trans campaigners as an anti-trans dog whistle for suggesting that a person can choose their gender to be anything.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Telegraph understands that the card will be pulled from Sainsbury&rsquo;s stores across the UK in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >coming days amid backlash<\/a> from the trans community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sophie Molly, a trans journalist, spotted the card at the Berryden branch of Sainsbury&rsquo;s in Aberdeen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Molly later told PinkNews, an LGBT outlet, that the card &ldquo;belittles the identity of trans and non-binary people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trans people don&rsquo;t choose to identify as their gender &ndash; it&rsquo;s part of who they are. Being trans is not a choice,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cis people [a person whose gender identity matches their sex at birth] saying they identify as something like a tomato, attack helicopter or a Grinch invalidates the lived experience of trans people. It tells the world that they think it&rsquo;s a choice to be trans, something you can switch in and out of, like playing dress up. This is not true.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Being trans or non-binary is not something you can switch off, in the same way a cis person can&rsquo;t switch off being cis,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The man who thinks he&rsquo;s a lady doth protest too much. After all, if this isn&rsquo;t a matter of &ldquo;who you are,&rdquo; a card doesn&rsquo;t change that or significantly alter the conversation &mdash; unless, of course, you 1) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/number-young-americans-identifying-trans-queer-plummets-study-likens-fading-fashion-trend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">think it hits too close to home<\/a> or 2) don&rsquo;t just want to be free to live your life but have everyone enthusiastically affirm it by toeing your line.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the people who were responsible for the card got to manically toeing posthaste.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was in no way our intention to cause anyone in the trans community offence. We will remove this design from our range immediately,&rdquo; said Jennie Rutter, creative director at card publisher Emotional Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Due to our contribution to the card, I&rsquo;d like to apologise on behalf of Paper Salad for any offense caused,&rdquo; said Jack Wilson, the operations director at the company that illustrated the card.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This was not our intention. We have removed the design from sale and destroyed all stock with immediate effect.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sainsbury&rsquo;s, for its part, was a bit more noncommittal about its decision to toe, although you can tell they decided it just wasn&rsquo;t worth the fight: &ldquo;At Sainsbury&rsquo;s, we&rsquo;re committed to being an inclusive retailer where people love to work and shop. We offer a wide selection of Christmas cards and our ranges vary each year, so there&rsquo;s something for everyone,&rdquo; a spokesman said. &ldquo;We value all customer feedback on this year&rsquo;s designs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I bet they do; in the meanwhile, they&rsquo;ll hopefully get plenty of customer feedback on the designs that they aren&rsquo;t stocking. Not that the joke was that funny, but the fact remains that the only way to keep the so-called &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-forced-issue-correction-fact-check-trying-nail-trump-transgender-mice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vibes shift<\/a>&rdquo; back toward sanity going is constantly enforcing sanity in the same way the transgender Bluesky crowd enforces mass insanity. Without that kind of assiduousness, we&rsquo;ll go back to the bad old days of 2021 in quite a hurry.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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