Also While I Was Out...
http://endablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/also-while-i-was-out/But don't for one second believe that that is the only way than one can be 'othered'.
What is a different form of othering? Ensuring that never, under any circumstances, will trans people be fully transitioned in the eyes of federal employment discrimination law.
If you begin transition on a job, that transition will never actually be complete – unless your employer degins it to be so. If you've already transitioned and are outed – be it by some jerk who might have known you pre-transition or by a Social Security 'no-match' letter – then the built-in employer superiority (someone gets to define 'reasonable', and it won't be you) kicks in and you will be officially regarded as in transition no matter how long ago you actually completed transition.
