Alabama native Sadie Vice traveled to Atlanta on March 3, 2025, to visit friends and take part in a charity show to raise funds for a friend with cancer. She booked a room with Extended Stay America Atlanta-Northlake via Expedia.
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After that day of traveling, Vice was ready to relax in a hotel room. But instead of relaxation, she faced discrimination.
She went from the Lyft to the check-in desk with her reservation information, but she was turned away when she tried to check-in. Vice says that the agent at the desk first claimed that they didn’t have any rooms. Confused, Vice said there must have been a mistake because she made a reservation and nobody had contacted her to cancel it. When she produced her reservation number, the agent looked at it and asked to see her ID. Sadie says that the agent, who wasn’t wearing a name badge, then told her, “Your reservation was canceled because people like you can’t stay here.”
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Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Vice completed her full medical transition back in 2010. She moved around the Southeast, spending time in Florida and Georgia, and earned the title of Miss Trans Atlanta in 2017. In 2020, she became extremely ill, first with COVID-19 and then with cancer. Vice has since returned to Tuscaloosa, and after battling her illnesses, she went on to become Miss Trans Alabama in 2024.
While she was able to have her correct gender listed on her state ID cards during her time in Georgia and Florida, Alabama’s restrictive ID laws require gender markers to match the one assigned at birth. This, of course, creates a mismatch between Vice’s ID and her gender presentation.
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In the message, Edward said that the hotel was contacted by their corporate office about Vice being denied service. While Sadie talked to a woman at the front desk, Edward claimed that he was working at the front desk that day and that the staff didn’t remember any guests checking in with any reservations. He also said that he remembered her name because it was a reservation “that I canceled because we didn’t have any rooms available.”
Vice had made her reservations with Extended Stay America, Atlanta-Northlake on February 15 through Expedia. That booking was confirmed, and she says she never received any notice of cancellation prior to her arrival. Moreover, it would be strange if no one checked in to the Extended Stay that day, especially considering that Edward claimed that they were fully booked.
Edward said that he checked their security camera footage but that nobody had tried to check in during that time window. He suggested that she might not have had the right location or that he might have been on a break when she showed up.
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Some of these explanations offered by the assistant manager seem contradictory. He suggested Vice went to the wrong location, but he also said in the first voicemail that he remembered canceling her reservation. Vice’s Lyft receipt, which LGBTQ Nation has viewed, shows that she was taken to the address of Extended Stay America Atlanta-Northlake.
Also, if she had talked to a guest and not an employee like Edward suggested, it’s not clear how they would have been able to pull up her information and see that she had a second reservation for late March.
Fortunately, after being turned away by Extended Stay America despite booking in advance, she was able to get a room at the nearby Days Inn and performed at the charity show as planned. But moving to a different hotel was a stressful experience that meant spending more on a last-minute room, and nobody should have to suffer being rejected over bigotry.
“It is terrible anyone can have their hotel reservation canceled without notice over what body part may or may not be in between their legs,” Vice said.
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Moreover, the situation shows how anti-trans laws – including those that restrict trans people’s ability to get correct IDs – lead to real-world discrimination. Vice says that the agent only confirmed she was being turned away after looking at her Alabama ID, which lists her as male. Vice only moved back to Alabama to deal with health issues resulting from her cancer treatment, and the tradeoff for caring for her health is living in a state that won’t let her gender marker match her gender presentation. Those rules put trans people at risk for discrimination and violence by having their IDs out them to strangers.
“This is the world we live in now,” Vice said, citing the current presidential administration.
(*) This article is biased in favor of homosexuality, but its reason for being here on AltrightTV is to show that not all places are homosexual friendly. We need to fight this homosexual agenda in America,
* Original Article:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/trans-woman-allegedly-turned-away-from-hotel-because-people-like-you-cant-stay-here/