One Person's Transition is Everyone's Transition
Posted by Xiaolu Ning in Transition Jan 13, 2011
http://dot429.com/articles/2011/01/13/one-person-s-transition-everyone-s-transitionMeghan Stabler is a business executive, national LGBT activist, transsexual woman, and transgender advocate. She has served on the Human Rights Campaign's Board of Directors since 2008 and is currently Senior Director and Executive Advisor at CA Technologies, a New York-based multi-billion-dollar IT management software and solutions company. Stabler shares with dot429 her journey of transition, its impact on her career, and the work she has done towards establishing equality in the corporate workplace.
"Transitioning gender in the workplace is like playing a chess game while spinning plates and herding cats," says Stabler, who made her public male-female transition several years ago after much deliberation. "The business climate is not overly accepting, so you are already laying out multiple game plans based on the expected results and things that are currently happening. You have to think to yourself, 'I want this down the road, and to make that happen, I need to have these conversations with these people and this policy in place.'" Stabler believes that policies accommodating transgender employees are necessary due to the lack of employee equality in corporate America.
