A Pennsylvania trans woman has filed suit over her employer’s request that she provide a photograph of her genitalia in order to return to work. Both The Advocate and the Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) report that Kate Lynn Blatt was let go from a temporary job in 2007 and then refused further employment through Manpower, [...]
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Kate Lynn Blatt and Manpower’s Outrageous Request
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged bodies, discrimination, employment, Kate Lynn Blatt, legal on August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jan Hamilton on Scotland’s Police Force
Posted in Information, News, Observations, tagged employment, Jan Hamilton, news, trans women, transgender, transition, transsexual on May 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
While there are quite a few trans police officers in the United States — and, apparently, in many countries all over the world — Jan Hamilton has the honor of becoming Scotland’s first “transgender” police officer. While I’m not fond of the headline of this article about Ms. Hamilton — “Sex Change Army Hero Jan [...]
Shenoa Vild: Conform or Get Canned
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged employment, gender expectations, gender expression, gender roles, legal, Shenoa Vild on May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Shenoa Vild is not trans. She’s simply a woman who doesn’t like to wear makeup. And for this, she lost her job. It seems that, when the restaurant where she had worked for five years providing excellent customer service was purchased by a new owner, the female waitstaff was told to wear makeup — or [...]
Diane Schroer Wins Library of Congress Lawsuit
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged Diane Schroer, employment, legal, trans women on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A decorated war veteran with 25 years of service can’t get a job at the Library of Congress? Not if she’s trans. Special forces officer Diane Schroer, who completed over 450 parachute jumps, received numerous decorations including the Defense Superior Service Medal, and was hand-picked to head up a classified national security operation, interviewed for [...]
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Amanda Simpson and the Trans Catch-22
Posted in Commentary, News, Observations, tagged Amanda Simpson, assimilation, being out, coming out, employment, politics on January 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The Obama administration’s appointment of Amanda Simpson, a trans woman, to the post of Senior Technical Adviser to the Department of Commerce is a major blip in the trans-history timeline that is being created as we speak for people to examine 50 or 100 years from now. But the announcement brings with it a kind [...]
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