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ENDA Lessons Learned

Started by Shana A, November 11, 2007, 10:10:28 AM

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Shana A

November 11, 2007, 10:10:28 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2007/11/enda_lessons_learned.php#more

"Filed by: Rebecca Juro
November 10, 2007 6:21 PM

Sometimes it's hard to keep a certain amount of journalistic distance on a story, especially if it affects you or people you care about in some way. For me, ENDA has been, and continues to be, one of those stories. Since going full time about ten and a half years ago, I've lost at least three jobs for reasons I directly attribute to anti-transgender discrimination, and I can't even begin to come up with a number for how many times I've not been hired for the same reasons. I'm essentially unemployed right now. All this has happened in New Jersey, bluest of the blue states. And oh yeah, we've got a state law protecting transpeople here, too. The problem is that in order for that law to even be potentially useful you have to get someone to hire you first, and all too often that's just the first of your problems in the workplace when you're visibly transgender."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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