Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Discrimination!

I have written in the past about discrimination and how it affects the trans-community. How trans-people with PhD’s and Master’s degrees cannot find job. That as soon as they come out to their employer, they get fired and cannot find jobs, the unemployment rate for trans-people is over 40% in some surveys.

In New York City, an organization did a test where there were two equally qualified persons that applied for jobs, one straight and one trans. The straight person received eight job offers while the trans-person received none.

In a Daily News article there wrote…
'Transgender people need not apply' at J. Crew says Make the Road New York advocacy group

BY Erica Pearson
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Sunday, March 14th 2010, 4:00 AM

Members of the nonprofit group Make the Road New York are rallying today in front of the preppy haven's Fifth Ave. location to protest what they say is employment discrimination.

Smith applied for jobs at dozens of retail stores in Manhattan as an openly transgender person. At the same time, a nontransgender person evenly matched in age, race and experience applied for the same jobs.

Smith didn't get a single offer, but the other person got eight. Smith was one of two pairs of applicants who tested the hiring practices of retailers.
It is time to end the discrimination. Employment should be based on your ability to do the job, not who you are.

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