Gay Pride Week: Queens Advocates Take On Job Discrimination Against Transgender People

By: Ruschell Boone

http://www.ny1.com/content/special_reports/pride_week_2010/120964/gay-pride-week--queens-advocates-take-on-job-discrimination-against-transgender-people

As the station continues its coverage of Pride Week, NY1 turns its focus on the transgender community and how a Queens organization is helping them to fight discrimination in and out of the workplace. NY1's Ruschell Boone filed the following report.

Looking at Joi-Elle White, it is hard to tell she was born a man, but the transgender New Yorker says once people find out, it often leads to discrimination. She says it especially happens in the workplace.

"It's a shame to be on a job walking on eggshells, to know I could get fired not for my performance at work, because I was always early and willing to stay late and was a hard worker, but just for who I am," says White.