Coca-Cola-Owned Coffee Chain Faces Boycott Calls Over Trans Ad Showing Breast Removal Scars

A UK coffee chain owned by Coca-Cola is facing boycott calls over its use of cartoon promotional material featuring a transgender person with prominent scars from surgical breast removal.
Coca-Cola-Owned Coffee Chain Faces Boycott Calls Over Trans Ad Showing Breast Removal Scars
Customers sit outside a Costa Coffee store in London on Aug. 31, 2018. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
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A coffee chain owned by Coca-Cola is facing boycott calls in the UK over its use of promotional material that features a cartoon image of a transgender person with prominent scars from surgical breast removal.

Costa Coffee, a leading coffee shop chain in the UK, used the cartoon-like mural on the side of a Costa Express van, with critics saying it glorifies life-changing gender reassignment surgery and fuels gender dysphoria.

Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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