Anyone who is trans and looking for a job knows how hard it is to find one when you’re trans. There are thousands of excuses why they didn’t hire you and none of them are because you are trans even though they gun hoe to hire you until they find out you are trans then you can just hear the ice forming, but that might be changing.
I remember IBM when you could spot an IBM employee a mile away, they looked like they were made from a cookie cutter. A blue suit with a thin blue tie and a white shirt with a 1960 flat top haircut. So when two hippies came with an idea with an idea for computers it was rejected… big is beautiful, small is bad. Personal computers no way! That idea is just a passing fad; mainframes are the way to go.
We all have different thought patterns that was formed by our race, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic status, our sexual orientation, and gender identity and that diversity is what can make a business succeed.
TransTech Helps Transgender People Get Jobs In Tech And, Soon, The White HouseTech Crunch NewsThat is what I believe, that diversity is good for business.
By Megan Rose Dickey
September 1, 2015
Transgender and gender non-conforming people are at risk of facing injustice and discrimination wherever they are: in their childhood homes, schools, the workplace and even in line at the grocery store.
This discrimination can lead to missed education and professional development opportunities, which is where TransTech comes in. TransTech’s goal is to develop pipelines to employment and ultimately, independence, for trans people throughout the world.
TransTech Founder and CEO Angelica Ross (pictured above) knows first-hand how difficult it can be to get a job as a transgender person. When Ross began her transition to living as a woman, her employer fired her, her family alienated her and she was introduced to sex work and the adult industry. Ross eventually decided to teach herself how to build websites, and later worked with nonprofit organizations that were looking to serve transgender communities around employment. She soon realized that those types of services could be a lot more effective.
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“I always have believed in the value of the diversity and resilience, and just really the different skill sets that our community has,” Ross said. “But we’ve never been able to find the right platform and find the right environment for us as a community — for us as a professional community. So that’s what I am doing with TransTech — creating that professional environment.”
I remember IBM when you could spot an IBM employee a mile away, they looked like they were made from a cookie cutter. A blue suit with a thin blue tie and a white shirt with a 1960 flat top haircut. So when two hippies came with an idea with an idea for computers it was rejected… big is beautiful, small is bad. Personal computers no way! That idea is just a passing fad; mainframes are the way to go.
We all have different thought patterns that was formed by our race, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic status, our sexual orientation, and gender identity and that diversity is what can make a business succeed.
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