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Title: Slowly, Companies Embracing Transgender Employees
Post by: Natasha on September 22, 2008, 05:39:59 PM
Slowly, Companies Embracing Transgender Employees

http://www.theledger.com/article/20080921/news/809220309 (http://www.theledger.com/article/20080921/news/809220309)
9/21/2008

Breanna L. Speed waited four years before announcing to her co-workers that she would not be Wendell anymore.

She was concerned that the revelation that she felt more comfortable living life as a woman than in the male body she was born with would jeopardize her job at Hewitt Associates, an outsourcing company in Lincolnshire, Ill., where she had worked as a database administrator for seven years.