Too Little, Too Late on Gender Identity Protections?
As the political frenzy over job creation and unemployment heightens, comprehensive gender identity employment protections remain elusive.
By Andrew Harmon
http://www.advocate.com/Business/Careers/Too_Little_Too_Late_on_Gender_Identity_Protections/El'Jai Devoureau's job at a New Jersey drug treatment center was taken away as quickly as it was offered. It wasn't glamorous: In June of 2010 he was hired to ensure that male patients giving their urine samples for testing weren't cheating. The economy is tough, and a job is a job.
On his second day of work at Urban Treatment Associates in Camden, his supervisor found out that Devoureau, now 39, was born female.
