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Title: Which Restroom? Employers Face Challenges With Gender Identity Issues
Post by: Shana A on April 06, 2010, 08:42:35 AM
Which Restroom? Employers Face Challenges With Gender Identity Issues.
By Philip Moss
Tuesday, 6th April 2010   

http://www.4hoteliers.com/4hots_fshw.php?mwi=4970 (http://www.4hoteliers.com/4hots_fshw.php?mwi=4970)

Good Eats, runs a family restaurant in a state which prohibits discrimination in employment based upon gender identity and disability.

Its employees are required to wear name-tags, and to dress the same (black pants and shirt, minimal jewelry, conservative make-up).  It has men's and women's restrooms, used by customers and employees alike.  An employee (George) tells the manager that he is in transition to becoming a woman, and wants:

    * to be addressed as Gail,
    * to change her name-tag to read "Gail," and
    * to use the women's restroom.