Quote from: tekla on January 17, 2009, 12:29:42 PMMy 'guide' book lists 7 different dress codes depending on the job. If I don't follow it, I can expect to be sent home, no work, no pay.
and some junior standby gets a chance...
The ideal solution would have been for the employee to follow the female dress code, and have management willing to work with the employee through her transition. Possibly, they could have pulled her from the sales floor during that rough ambiguous phase we trans all go through.
But management took the tack of I-know-you-were-born-with-a-penis-so you-have-to-look-like-a-man -- quite possibly as a way of forcing her either to conform or to quit, but at any rate to discourage her from transitioning (for their benefit, not hers.)
We need a B.F.H. to fight back against the bigots. Fully-Inclusive-ENDA is just such a hammer.
But the employer still gets to enforce tasteful standards of dress, even with ENDA in place.
Honestly, I think that my co-workers were scared that I'd come to work dressed like a streetcorner hooker/teen slut after I announced my transition. They didn't expect tasteful conservative attire...
The trans community, sadly, still has a long way to go.
Karen
