Gender Discrimination: New Beginnings in California
With only 35% of transgender Americans reporting full-time employment, it can feel as though society’s out to undercut our economic aspirations, however, together, we can shift this paradigm and realize our ambition. This is evident in the hospitality and opportunity I’ve been offered following my recent relocation from Missouri to California.
Had Joseph Smith been transgender, he’d have kept going west, never stopping in Missouri or Utah, discovering this nation’s interior is no inclusive promised land. While running Missouri’s transgender advocacy organization in 2010, in an effort to reduce transgender discrimination and unemployment, I teamed up with one of St. Louis City’s Aldermen, Shane Cohn, to successfully extend the municipal civil rights protections to transgender persons. Fast forward a few years, and homogeneity appears to remain the preferred approach to staffing.
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