I recommend that you read "Back Off!" by Martha Langelan. It is a wonderful handbook about sexual and gender harassment, how to tell if it's happening, and what to do with it.
The separate but equal washroom is a manifestation of which you might be careful and observant. No employer spends the $10,000 or so to install a new washroom for one person without having a desire to cashier that person out.
Read the book. Be aware. Locate a labor relations lawyer should you need one.
Wing Walker
Posted on: December 13, 2007, 01:41:41 AM
Quote from: tekla on December 11, 2007, 11:44:58 PM
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, among others said that, but that was a very different situation. And a very different time and place. Anyone can use the "family bathroom" or the "unisex" deal. Nobody checks on the first, and the second is assumed.
All the company has to prove is 'reasonable accommodation' - otherwise they are pretty much off the hook. Give a chance (not possible for most of the peeeps who work in third world conditions to make your fashions by the way - and that means that your wardrobe is made in the USA or Europe by union employers and that you are not buying stuff made in sweatshops so you can save fifty cents per panty? - and yes, all my clothing is made in the USA by union workers or like by American Apparel out of L.A. which gives its workers a decent wage then.... well, who are you to talk exactly?
) to take a bathroom break, and given a bathroom to use, what's the problem. Or are you really hung up on bathrooms and not the work itself?
Please correct me if I am in error, but 'reasonable accommodation' applies to persons covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, does it not? Is there any uniform law, ordinance, regulation, or ruling dealing with transsexual persons' need for workplace washrooms? I am sorry, but I have yet to see that.
Wing Walker
