Job-Seeker Who Changed Her Gender Goes to Court

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Job-Seeker Who Changed Her Gender Goes to Court

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081902953.html?hpid=moreheadlines
By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Diane Schroer, a 52-year-old former Army Special Forces commander,
testified yesterday in federal court that she was "disappointed and
dismayed" when an official at the Library of Congress rescinded a job
offer even though she was the star candidate.

The offer, for a job as a terrorism research analyst, was pulled the
day after Schroer told her future boss that she was making the medical
transition from being a man, David, to being a woman, Diane.

"I honestly felt a little surprised and shocked," Schroer testified
during the first day of the trial in her discrimination lawsuit
against the Library of Congress. Choking back tears, Schroer added
that "every day, I wish the phone rang and they said, 'We made a
mistake.' "