Transgender Teen Faces Discrimination

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High school can be hard for any teenager struggling with self-identity and trying to fit in. One Greensboro senior is facing a very unique challenge.

"My gender is female. People think that gender and sex are the same thing, but sex is like your physical whatever and gender is like your mind," says Devon McCauley.

[Kate Thomas]

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by Jordan Green of Yes Weekly

McCauley's journey as a young transgender person has thrust her into a tangle of prejudices, verbal slights and incidents of legally sanctioned discrimination both subtle and blatant. The most obvious episode of discrimination stemmed from two McDonald's managers' joint decision to ban her from the restaurant in response to a customer complaint after she used the women's restroom.

Equally or more onerous is the discrimination meted out by prospective employers unable to reconcile her male name with her female appearance, a bias that prevents her from earning her own income.