Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of The View, erupts after anti-woke Michigan hairdresser’s remark

Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of The View, has criticized a Michigan barber for telling people who want to identify as anything other than male or female to use an animal groomer.

Goldberg, 67, said “you can’t joke and say rude things about people,” referring to salon owner Christine Geiger’s controversial comment.

On Tuesday, Geiger vowed to ban certain members of the LGBTQ+ community who specify their pronouns from using her salon in downtown Traverse City, saying they were “not welcome.”

“If a human identifies as anything other than male/female, please seek help from a local zookeeper,” the owner of Studio 8 Hair Lab wrote on Facebook.

Her comment followed the recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of a Colorado Christian web designer who refused to design a website for same-sex marriage, and it was widely condemned online.

Goldberg began her commentary on the issue by referring to the SCOTUS ruling, saying, “They mentioned her First Amendment rights.

Now a salon owner in Michigan claims this gives her the right to refuse to serve transgender clients.

“First of all, I don’t think trans people come to your salon,” Goldberg said to loud applause from the audience.

“After researching a little more information, you have every right to say no if you decide you don’t want to do someone’s hair.

‘What you can’t do is what you did, lady. You can’t make jokes and say rude things about people, then it becomes a problem.’

In her Facebook post, Geiger wrote that she was simply exercising her right to “free speech” as well as her ability as a business owner to “deny service” to certain clients.

In the since-deleted post, Geiger wrote that she didn’t care that she broke a law passed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer earlier this year.

Should you ask to use a particular pronoun, please note that we can simply call you “hey you.” Irrespective of MI HB 4744,” Geiger wrote.

In March, the Whitmer administration signed legislation banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Geiger also wrote that as a small business owner, she “is not bound by any oath as brokers are in regard to discrimination.”

Among her inflammatory comments, she added the hashtag “take a stand.”

The post and account have since been deleted, while the salon’s Instagram has been set to private with a caption explaining that they “do not cater to awakened ideologies.”

In response to criticism from local people and the general public when her post went viral online, Geiger doubled down on her opinion in a comment saying she’s “no problems with LGB. It’s the TQ+ that I’m not going to support.’

Continuing her long comment, the salon owner said she believes the “+” code is for “Minor Attracted Person aka: pedophile.”

The ‘+’ in the abbreviation LGBTQ+ actually represents community members who identify with an orientation or identity not included in the acronym.

“It’s an inclusive way of representing gender and sexual identities that letters and words can’t yet fully describe,” GoodRX Health reports.

Geiger said she’unwilling to play the pronoun game or accommodate requests beyond what I consider normal for her clientele.

“Conservatives need to acclimate these awake individuals to their new realities,” she wrote, adding that she “HAVE ENOUGH of their ideologies.”

Last month’s Supreme Court vote on the Colorado web designer’s issue of serving a hypothetical gay couple in need of website design was 6-3 — a reflection of the conservative-liberal divide among judges.

The ruling overturned a lower court’s decision that Denver-area business owner Lorie Smith was denied an exemption from a Colorado law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, is an evangelical Christian who said she believes marriage can only exist between a man and a woman.

She sued the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and officials in 2016 because she feared being punished for refusing to serve same-sex marriages.

Smith insisted she didn’t want to discriminate against anyone, but objected to not being able to express her Christian beliefs, adding that her websites count as art and were protected by her constitutional right to free speech.

Goldberg’s input on the latest development in this area comes weeks after she criticized SCOTUS for banning race as a factor in college admissions — saying they “distorted” precedent.

She argued that if everyone was truly treated equally, there would never have been a need for affirmative action in the first place.

The Supreme Court last month banned colleges from using race as a factor when admitting students in a landmark affirmative action ruling.

The judges decided by a vote of 6-3 that the race-based admissions policy of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) is unconstitutional.