Interesting Study

[Bionca]

Originally Posted by TheSkronkDonkey

A much appreciated -- and very important -- link. Thanks, Bionca.

What's interesting, and quite devastating, is conflating the unemployment rate of transgendered people with the harassment statistic. It means that, for almost all those with employment, they're putting up with abuse and having their rights and privileges trampled, which means that many transgendered individuals are probably suffering weekly, if not daily, gender-related crap, from colleagues, managers, clients and whomever, but are compelled to stay where they are for basic financial reasons; reasons that are virtually insurmountable, thanks to what the other statistics (denial of promotion and poverty rates) suggest.

Considering the statistic for harassment is 97% - that's HUGE. I mean I work for a great company and they have been very supportive of me. But I still had to fight to use the bathroom when people found out. The guys who were kinda flirting with me were now being laughed at, which made it harder to get them to actually do the work I needed them to do. I also got some rather unwanted attention from a couple guys.

HR put a stop to most of the nonsense, but it's still there. The atmosphere changed and it's harder to work with our development team (well harder, they have always been hard to deal with).