Job training efforts grow for transgender workers

[SandraJane]

Job training efforts grow for transgender workers

by ERIC TUCKER| Posted on October 7, 2011 at 5:03 AM

The Associated Press

http://www.kmov.com/news/national/Job-training-efforts-grow-for-transgender-workers-131316564.html


Credit: AP

In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, Courtney Phillips, left, participates in class during the Project Empowerment workshop at Department of Employment Services in Washington. At right standing is Arriel Michelle Williams. Williams is in the early stages of a painstaking physical transformation from man to woman, and the clanging dissonance between her masculine voice and high heels, earrings and fashionable ladies� tops risks disquieting potential employers. Williams and nearly two dozen other transgender men and women just concluded a month-long, city-funded job training and life skills pilot program in the District of Columbia that aims to find jobs for an often-marginalized population. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Arriel Michelle Williams is in the early stages of a painstaking physical transformation from man to woman, and the clanging dissonance between her masculine voice and high heels, earrings and fashionable ladies' tops risks disquieting potential employers.