Comments on: You’re Transgender? You’re Fired!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:19:04 +0000

In this electronic age, it’s getting harder and harder to totally eradicate one’s prior name. I still get junk mail in my prior name, almost eight years after transition. If you don’t tell an employer up front and get found out later on, you could be fired for “deception” unless you live in an area with protection against employment discrimination.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:21:22 +0000

I can understand telling your current employer of your plans but can’t see a reason to inform or even discuss it with a new or possible employer.
You can and should change your name on all official documents including your social security card to avoid the question.
No, I am not saying to hide it but if you have made the change why bring it up at all? You are now whichever gender you have become.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:18:55 +0000

“While thinking of other body deformities – birth defects, visible and invisible.

Do we say to children with facial deformities or congenital heart disease,

God doesn’t make mistakes, so you should remain the way you were created?’

Of course you wouldn’t.

“How, then, is my condition different? Is it because you cannot see

my birth defect? Do you simply disbelieve me when I tell you there was a discrepancy

between my body and my mind, present from my earliest memory and

which I did not choose? Do you think I’m lying or misinformed? I have lived in

this body for decades and I can tell you that it was not my choice to have this

discrepancy. That it has developed on it’s own producing effects that can not be corrected.

“I agree that God does not make mistakes. I believe God allowed this

discrepancy in my life for reasons I do not comprehend,

but God also gave me the way to resolve the problem.

I believe God loves me even though some of those who claim to speak for God do not love or respect me.

“I realize that your life experience is not like mine. I know that you

cannot comprehend this birth defect I am describing, any more than I

can understand what it is like to be color blind or deaf, for example. But that doesn’t

make my problem any less real.

“So, let me offer this hope that we can accept one another’s

differences and take comfort in our shared faith in a loving God?