Deb Price: The fight against job bias
Deb Price | Posted: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:45 am
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/guest/article_ed74573b-a3ac-596b-8d53-8edbe7345cac.htmlLife journeys often begin with secrets, ones that children sense they mustn't share for fear of ridicule -- or worse.
For Vandy Beth Glenn, the secret was an "overwhelming awareness" growing up in Atlanta of being a girl inside a boy's body.
That certainty didn't change in early adulthood, when she served as a lieutenant in the Navy, nor when she landed her dream job four years ago of editing bills and resolutions being introduced in the Georgia General Assembly.
What did change was her sense of the possible. Or, as she puts it, "I finally began to imagine a life where I could at last be myself."
