I really couldn't think of a better title. But anyway, I've had like the worst week ever. Everything that can go wrong, constant frustration, and now, more two-faced BS that this town is famous for!!! yeah, how stupid of me to actually think I could get my life together?!
First off, I've been told several times that you can get the full spectrum of health care and services at the university hospital and all of its affiliated clinics and doctors offices under their charity care program if you can present a denial of welfare benefits letter to them. So I went through ALL THAT ->-bleeped-<- of applying for all the welfare benefits that exist to get my denial letters (because benefits are ONLY FOR children under 18 here!) and NOW they tell me that I can't see ANY doctor that's affiliated with them at all and that you have to see a doctor they're not at all affiliated with to be referred in to their health care system!! What a crock of ->-bleeped-<-!! Everyone in WV is two-faced as ->-bleeped-<-!! Excuse my language but I'm pissed!!! I know I need to be on thyroid pills! I thought for once I was going to get somewhere with that!!!
Then, after a whole week, I finally get a call back from the tech ed center. For my entire life they have advertised their programs for auto repair, collision repair, welding, construction, electrical, medical assistant, and more stuff and now that I finally do hear back from them, the director there says that while they do take adults, they only take adults if there's room after enrolling high school students. So why do you advertise it as adult programs where you can get degrees and certifications from then!?!? She had no answer for that and just patronized me for the longest time about how as a woman, I'm better off trying to get a computer job (I've been trying for 10 years!!) and how unlikely it is that anyone would hire a woman for such rough & tough roughneck jobs like what I had asked about ("oh golly gee I'm just a helpless little prairie girl" you should've heard the tone in her voice) (and again, no one hires women in WV because of the rampant discrimination!! DUH!! I want some degree or certification to take to California that will actually mean something!) and she just went on and on about how women don't do those jobs and are better suited for secretary positions and - get this - even if I take one of their courses (that they advertise for adults), nothing they teach qualifies you for jack ->-bleeped-<-!! And most of their students don't go on to get any jobs at all! and then she goes on and on even more about how trying to go a different career route at this stage in life is the wrong thing to do for a poor, helpless ol lil' woman.... ->-bleeped-<-in a!!!
I got so frustrated with trying to tell her what they advertise is that they have adult courses which prepare you for certification testing, no? And I got so sick of her ideas on a woman's place in society that I told her "well I'm trans, I don't dress like a woman or present myself like a woman and I can handle myself" and she said, "Oh gee I really don't know how to respond to that... (pause) but still, as a woman, women just don't do these sort of jobs!" ARRGGGHH!!!
