Slowly, Companies Embracing Transgender Employees

[Natasha]

Slowly, Companies Embracing Transgender Employees

http://www.theledger.com/article/20080921/news/809220309
9/21/2008

Breanna L. Speed waited four years before announcing to her co-workers that she would not be Wendell anymore.

She was concerned that the revelation that she felt more comfortable living life as a woman than in the male body she was born with would jeopardize her job at Hewitt Associates, an outsourcing company in Lincolnshire, Ill., where she had worked as a database administrator for seven years.