Unemployment Sets More Traps for Transgender People

[Shana A]

Unemployment Sets More Traps for Transgender People

By Megan Carpentier
WeNews correspondent
Sunday, June 13, 2010

http://www.womensenews.org/story/lesbian-and-transgender/100611/unemployment-sets-more-traps-transgender-people

The recession is causing the paperwork to pile up. For transgender people this is particularly tough. Every application for work or government assistance contains the possibility of probing and intrusive questions of sexual identity.

(WOMENSENEWS)--As the recession takes a deeper toll on jobs, income and wages, more Americans are filling out forms for jobs, unemployment insurance, Medicaid and food stamps.

It's a labyrinthine process for anyone. But for transgender people, it often comes with a particularly upsetting price: outing themselves.

Riley, a 28-year-old transman working as a teacher's aide in New York, who asked that his last name be kept private, began his on-the-job transition without any grand announcement.

[LordKAT]

Not more traps, just same old crap.

[glendagladwitch]

That article says Georgia will not change the birth certificate, but everywhere I look on the web it says Georgia will issue a new one.  And I know people form Georgia who have changed theirs.  So did Georgia change its law recently or is this article incorrect?

[LordKAT]

If you read the comments, that point was brought up along with a couple others.

[Jamie-o]

But the good news, if you read the article, is that the State department is changing the requirements for changing the gender marker on passports.    It's a start!