Transgender Forum-an online informational link posted this today:
There’s big news from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that transgendered people are covered under Title VII which means employers can’t discriminate against TGs when they’re hiring.
This is HUGE!! If we look back at other groups that have been discriminated against in the USA (land of the free?-there are all kinds of ways to define "free" or "not free"; we as a country can afford to grow a bit in this area.) we see that "acceptance" often started with "forcing" employers to be fair in hiring practices. When more women, and African Americans, and Transgender people, and anyone else who does not encompass the "white christian male" qualities that seem to be preferred, are incorporated into the workforce, greater exposure to "different" kinds of people occurs. Then, when we work side by side with those people we used to think of as "different", we realize that they really aren't different when it comes to what really matters because good people all value the same qualities regardless of their background, identity, orientation, culture, religion, gender, or skin color: character, loyalty, tenacity, intelligence, morality, commitment to high ideals, to family and to loved ones.
I can only imagine that it must feel like progress moves at a snail's pace-I know that is true for me being a woman in a "traditional" man's workplace. But it is a small step forward which is hugely important.
There’s big news from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that transgendered people are covered under Title VII which means employers can’t discriminate against TGs when they’re hiring.
This is HUGE!! If we look back at other groups that have been discriminated against in the USA (land of the free?-there are all kinds of ways to define "free" or "not free"; we as a country can afford to grow a bit in this area.) we see that "acceptance" often started with "forcing" employers to be fair in hiring practices. When more women, and African Americans, and Transgender people, and anyone else who does not encompass the "white christian male" qualities that seem to be preferred, are incorporated into the workforce, greater exposure to "different" kinds of people occurs. Then, when we work side by side with those people we used to think of as "different", we realize that they really aren't different when it comes to what really matters because good people all value the same qualities regardless of their background, identity, orientation, culture, religion, gender, or skin color: character, loyalty, tenacity, intelligence, morality, commitment to high ideals, to family and to loved ones.
I can only imagine that it must feel like progress moves at a snail's pace-I know that is true for me being a woman in a "traditional" man's workplace. But it is a small step forward which is hugely important.
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