I'll show you mine ...

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith
8/27/09

As a transgender person, I can safely state that we get "gender checked" all the time. People gawk and stare, trying to read the histories of our bodies. The more curious and rude will ask, often in hushed voices, about our pasts, our old names, or even the configuration of our genitals. It is as if they have a right to ask these questions of us, and we are somehow duty-bound to answer.

Take for example the story of someone who is not a world class runner, but a former employee of Manpower Inc., a staffing services agency. Kate Lynn Blatt had previously worked for Manpower as a temporary factory worker as an aluminum products manufacturer. She was let go from that employer because she was supposedly not healthy enough to do the work.