The TSA Didn't Like Ashley Yang's Transgender Identity, So They Fired Her

http://www.queerty.com/the-tsa-didnt-like-ashley-yang-transgender-identity-so-they-fired-her-20110616/

Transportation screening officer Ashley Yang got hired by the TSA for a two-year probationary period. But when they discovered that she was transgender, they told her she would have to work as a man, cut her hair or wear a men's wig, use the men's bathroom and pat down male passengers who routinely sexually harassing her. She refused and so they fired her just a couple days before her probationary period ended.

Luckily, Yang teamed up with the Transgender Law Center and successfully sued for back pay as well as pain and suffering. Now the TSA has transgender training for its employees, but that does little to end trans workplace discrimination in other places.