Tough times prompt transgender job fair in L.A.

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Tough times prompt transgender job fair in L.A.
Fri Jun 5, 2009 9:39pm EDT
By Dan Whitcomb

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5546SA20090606?rpc=60

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sydney Dupree came to Los Angeles because, as a young male-to-female transsexual, she found Memphis hostile. She came to the transgender job fair because jobs are hard for her to find, even in Los Angeles.

Dupree has been frustrated by discrimination and employers who turn skittish when confronted with documents identifying her as male, both typical reasons why the transgendered struggle to find and keep jobs, especially during a recession.

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because jobs are hard for her to find, even in Los Angeles.

because jobs are hard for her for anyone to find, even especially in Los Angeles.

There, fixed it for you.