Columbus company helps transgender worker make transition

[Amelia Pond]

Columbus company helps transgender worker make transition
Tim Feran, The Columbus Dispatch, August 1, 2013 9:02 AM

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2013/08/01/columbus-company-helps-transgender-worker-make-transition.html

Returning to work after a long vacation can be a shock, but when some top brass at the Columbus marketing company Resource came back from the beach last year, a true surprise was in store.

Shelly Moss, a creative director at the company, had some big news for HR director Jamie Barcelona and company founder Nancy Kramer: Moss is transgender and was transitioning into a man who thereafter would use the first name Decker.

"My initial reaction was, 'Wow! This is a day I thought I'd never have,'" Barcelona said. " Then you instantly go into, 'How am I going to handle this? What do I need to do?'"

That was a question that Moss had asked for many years. "I had struggled with my gender identity from when I was really young," he said. "I didn't know how to deal with it."