Trans woman: Employer asked for photos

[Natasha]

Trans woman: Employer asked for photos

http://epgn.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Trans+woman-+Employer+asked+for+photos%20&id=3178538&instance=home_news
Timothy Cwiek
8/12/09

Trans woman Kate Lynn Blatt says her former employer requested a photograph of her genitalia as a condition of continued employment, after questions arose about her use of a worksite female locker room.

[Mister]

If i were her, i'd do a google search for the most diseased, infected, scabby vag i could find and send it to them with a note that said, "Didn't want to take a photo of mine, took this one of your wife instead."

[Calistine]

That can be considered sexual harrasment. But it is easy to forge

[Mister]

Actually you saw Pottsville. It's kinda like seein' SF and what the article's about is Gilroy.

Unlike Pottsville where this woman is getting her lifeblood sucked out, there are no vampires in Gilroy.

[lisagurl]

Man power is not the most intelligent group of people and temp services make up lies as they go along. A surgeons letter should be enough but if they want to be more picky the could ask for a doctor exam. The picture idea is pure idiotic on behalf of the personnel person.

[Janet_Girl]

Absolutely not.  That is totally sexual harassment and I would sue to no end.  And I could careless if anyone agrees.

Janet

[lisagurl]

Absolutely not.  That is totally sexual harassment and I would sue to no end.  And I could careless if anyone agrees.

Janet

Part of the high health care costs is due to doctors being dragged to court. Common sense tells you court is not the answer to many problems it is the cause of problems. The cost would just lower wages of those already working for them. Some well placed letters would make a much bigger impact. The end result of the expense and time of court would only get them to remove the requirement of the picture.

[tekla]

Part of the high health care costs is due to doctors being dragged to court.

Far less than the tort reformers would claim, its about 1%.  And to successfully sue a large corporation you better have lawyers as good as they do, that that kind of legal representation costs a lot of money.

[lisagurl]

On the average doctors pay 200K malpractice insurance. They make people spend lots of money for extra tests encase they are brought to court. Most settlements are done out of court.

[tekla]

Of course a single payer system radically reduces those awards because the bulk of the payment is for future medical care, which under a single payer system is already covered.

[lisagurl]

Maybe in CA but in other states millions go for pain and suffering. Single payer system is not good unless it is 100% and the doctors are employed but the government. Like most of history with government owned business it is great until it hurts big business pocketbook then the lobbyists get the system changed. If they can not compete they buy a change in rules. I seen it happen time and again. The loser is the public.

[Ellieka]

This is not just sexual harassment it's down right discrimination. Do they also demand that a woman who has just returned from giving birth to also provide pictures of process? They wouldn't dare! This is perpetrators bull turds!   

[fae_reborn]

Absolutely not.  That is totally sexual harassment and I would sue to no end.  And I could careless if anyone agrees.

Janet

I agree with you.  That is total harassment and is unprofessional and uncalled for.  A GG would never get the same kind of treatment.  If I were in the same situation, I would sue too.

[Steph]

On reading only one side of the story I would certainly say this is harassment/discrimination.  I just wish she hadn't said that "her disability is gender dysphoria."

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[Natasha]

If i were her, i'd do a google search for the most diseased, infected, scabby vag i could find and send it to them with a note that said, "Didn't want to take a photo of mine, took this one of your wife instead."

http://www.annelawrence.com/twr/bowers0707.html

[Ellieka]

OMG! 

[barbie]

If I were the employer who indeed wants to determine it, I would request inspection result or opinion from a professional doctor. As he did not, I think it is just a sexual harassment.

Barbie~~

[Britney_413]

I would take something like that to the higher-ups if possible and if that doesn't work, consider filing a lawsuit. This is gender discrimination plain and simple as well as sexual harrassment. I am guessing this is illegal in all 50 states as well. Asking an employee to submit photos of his or her genitals as a condition of employment is likely to be a criminal offense. That is not far off from having a video camera in the bathroom. If my boss did that to me, I would go straight outside and call the police.