Update on situation at work. There has not been another incident so that's good. However we found out this week that my company is going to close the site I work at after July. Now I need to find work in an industry were almost everyone in this area knows me as well as the guy I had issues with. I am somewhat concerned that I will have difficulty finding employment now. People know what I can do technically but from what I have found about 1/3 of people have some negativity toward trans people. All it takes is one person in the hiring chain to feel uncomfortable about trans people and you probably will not get hired. This guy is well connected with people in the industry, I do know most of them as well, but in the past I was very quiet and reclusive. I avoided doing anything with them away from work it was usually guy stuff I had no real interest in and only had enough knowledge about for small talk at work, It was too stressful to keep up the appearance of being one of the guys. I am thinking of just getting out of this line of work, I do have some strong allies but I am not sure that will be enough.
Another thing that sucks about this as the day before this announcement I talked with my health care provider about my coverage for GCS and was told the surgery would only cost me 600 dollars, don't think I can get that done in a month and a half.
Steph
