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From Katie Gilmartin’s ‘Queer Words’ series. Click through for more!
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[Two pictures, each with two panels. First panel of the first picture is of a group of nuns, with the caption ‘sisters’. Second panel is of a group of drag queens with the caption ‘sisters’. First panel of the second picture shows a glass of milk, with the caption ‘milk’. Second panel is a picture of Harvey Milk, with the same caption.]
From Katie Gilmartin’s ‘Queer Words’ series. Click through for more!
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Ooooh, go to the website. There are a ton of these, and they’re all great!")
They first had the person from my staffing agency contact me (instead of speaking to me personally) requesting that I not use the correct bathroom, because I might make people uncomfortable. When I asked him to please find out if there was a unisex bathroom in the building I could use (as I did not want to go to HR/my supervisor myself and make it a big deal) they informed him (and thus he informed me) that there is no unisex bathroom available and that I was no longer a good fit for the company.
When I contested that there was no issue, I would suck it up and use the wrong bathroom, they changed their tune to say that they didn’t interview “Aaron”, they interviewed “(legal name)”, and that I was “obviously” not the person I claimed to be.
What really disgusts me is that at 5:00pm, before I left, my supervisor was telling me how great I was doing, that I seemed like a really great fit and did so well with training, set me up my own desk and computer and told me when I came in tomorrow, I’d be on my own. At 5:40pm it was confirmed that they were not willing to work anything out, my “situation” made me an ill fit for the company, and they had already lined up someone else for my job.
It makes no difference that my skills, experience, and qualifications were the same, regardless of preferred name/pronouns. If I had requested to be called by a preferred traditionally feminine name, like say, a shortened version of my legal name or my middle name, I would still have my job.
For more information, please read the wikipedia article on the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and get involved in helping to fight for its passing.
I hate people and I hate this fucking country so much right now. Fuck everything.
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(Submitted by Nicolas)
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(Submitted by Nicolas)
*spit-take*
Utterly awesome.")
