News‘Laughed out of interviews': Trans workers discuss job discrimination

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[–]WrongToy[S] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

lol look at the pictures.

[–]Understanderson 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I pulled this story today when I saw it on Twitter before I noticed it was from 2019. I had heard about the "Aimee" Stephens case some years ago, but never learned how it came out. This is the TIM who decided to start transition after working for a funeral home for six years in a job that put him in a position where he worked directly with grieving families. The funeral home fired him. He lost his initial case and the first appeal, then it went to the Supreme Court in 2020 and it turns out he won. This is one of those cases where I think it was absolutely reasonable for his employer not to welcome him "bringing his whole self" to the job. Lately, I've noticed employment and housing are the two sops people are turning to when they say they don't want TIMs in women's sports, changing rooms, prisons, etc. People feel like they have to toss the TIMs a bone in order to seem like good people. I don't think they're really thinking it through.

[–]Pennygadget 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I understand wanting to protect housing rights. But employment is more difficult. As you said, it's unfair to expect a funeral home to force their grieving clients to deal with some goofy drag queen. Not only is it off-putting; it could hurt their business because people won't want to send their grandmother there to plan grandpa's funeral

Also, unlike most religions, trans dogma expects others to play along with their objectively untrue beliefs. It expects their workplace to put up with them wearing absurd costumes and forcing women to compromise their comfort & safety by sharing intimate facilities with men. It isn't a reasonable accommodation

Trans people shouldn't get to dress like clowns at work just because "muh identity". Just as I can't wear my pajamas to the office because I feel more like myself in them

[–]WrongToy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This should have been allowed to play out.

Funeral home directors are essentially salespeople. Failing to gather new contracts gets any salesperson fired. So do complaints. A couple months of this and it would have been termination based on those two factors, just as it is for any salesperson.

[–]WrongToy[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Scotus ruled that Aimee had the right to call herself Aimee and to wear a dress as dresses were in the company code. Bathrooms and misgendering were not part of the argument.

[–]arcticbasket 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hiring people is hard. Why would a company take a risk on one of these people?

[–]Pennygadget 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Aveda Adara, a 41-year-old transgender woman

Wow. That's the name he chose for his girl-sona.

It makes me think of "Avada Kadavera"

[–]arcticbasket 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Or Abracadabra.

[–]Understanderson 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

😂

[–]WrongToy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Huge tra with a little girls dress on indicates why you need to not proceed with hiring.

https://x.com/DisrespectedThe/status/1904887144880968036

[–]bife_de_lomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Discrimination isn't inherently bad, we all do it every day.

This sounds totally warranted.