PEABODY — Members of a local transgender social club are claiming they were refused entrance into a Peabody restaurant because of their appearance.
Ashley Bottoms, 42, of Saugus is alleging that she and seven others from Sisters Family were not let into Capone's Italian American restaurant on Summit Street because their appearance did not correspond with the photographs on their identifications.
"We feel we're being discriminated against," Bottoms said yesterday.
Bottoms, whose legal name is Robert Knowles, will be before Peabody's Licensing Board on Feb. 22 to submit a complaint against Capone's.
The board will allow Bottoms to be heard, but Chairman Minas Dakos did not know what authority, if any, it had to deal with the allegation.
"I've never run across anything like this," he said.