I've come across this while doing my usual Internet-trans-mining. It really strikes a chord with me and is very well made imo. Maybe some have seen it before, but I think everyone should watch it.

Excellent video!  Very well done.  It's things like this that can alert people to the horrible discrimination that exists in society and the value people who are different can have to a company if they simply get past their prejudice.

Julie

Thank you for posting this, Sarah. Exellent video.  I wish we'll be, sooner or later, able to get the message across to the general public: we're just normal folks trying to get through the day, just like anybody else. Those numbers about violence agaist transpeople were... Alarming. I do think that we have a somewhat better situation here in my country, but that still does't make these things less of a problem. It's all about people's fear of the unknown, I guess...

EDIT: Sarah, I got your PM. I'll respond as soon as I get my post count above the fifteen-post limit. Just watch my post count and you'll know when to expect to hear from me. 

Very excellent video.  I only wish there were more opportunities available for transpeople.

I was fired for being trans like many, but I can not prove it.  So I am living on unemployment.


Janet

Great vid, thanks much for sharing. I guess Massachusetts isn't as progressive as per trans issues as are some of the states here in the West... I know in Colorado and California, at least, we're protected against workplace discrimination under numerous laws. I'm fairly certain that's the case in Washington as well, but don't quote me on it. Of course, those laws didn't keep me from being fired from two separate jobs for being trans. Unfortunately, the laws are there, but not the people who feel like seeing that they're enforced.

SD

this video my me cry. I'm dealing with the process of finishing coming out to my closest friends and family and trying to find a way to start my transition. I live in western Washington state and we have gender discrimination laws. Also November 20th is the Transgender day of Remembrance for those who have either committed suicide or have been murdered due to they were trans. I'm not sure if we that gender discrimination law includes for hiring or maintaining a job. 

In Oregon we are protected against discrimination in housing, public accommodations and employment.


Janet

Excellent video Sarah.

In Australia we have antidiscrimination laws in place in most States.  Unfortunately they don't always protect one from biased creatures.

Quote from: Dianna on October 16, 2009, 02:26:26 AM
In Australia we have antidiscrimination laws in place in most States.  Unfortunately they don't always protect one from biased creatures.

Yeah, pretty much the same here in Finland. Our anti-discrimination laws seem to be pretty solid. (Heck, equality is the first basic right mentioned in our consititution.) Still, trans-related hate crimes apparently happen here every now and then. All in all, they are very rare, though.

The typical discrimination against the LGBT community, such as firing a transgendered employee, is easy enough to disquise by claiming the reason for firing the person was something totally unrelated to LGBT-issues. Honestly though, I feel lucky to live in this country. There aren't all that many countries where things were any better for us transpeople. As unfortunate as it sounds, we're not 100% protected anywhere. (Is anyone?)