Good News & Bad News

It sometimes seems like we are making two steps forward and three steps backwards… it seems like hate is winning.

In corporate America they are starting to realize that there is value in hiring us.

Although transgender workers face steep barriers, corporate America wants to hire them
Los Angeles Times
By Melissa Gomez
April 8, 2019

While working at a hair salon in Santa Monica, Ryan Blake played a role.

Blake recalls acting like a “stereotypical gay dude” at the business, not a 22-year-old gender nonbinary individual who doesn’t necessarily identify as either male or female, which can find expression in pronoun usage or dress.

It’s not “he” or “him.” Blake uses “they” or “them.”

“I knew in my heart that if I came into work like this,” said Blake — gesturing to their black cardigan, black skirt, tights and heeled boots — “it would be a problem.”
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So Blake never did, and that’s why the stylist could be found recently at the first job fair for transgender, gender nonbinary and nonconforming individuals sponsored by the St. John’s Well Child and Family Center in South Los Angeles.

The event at Los Angeles Trade-Tech College, which was not unprecedented, drew more than 700 job seekers from a community that often faces employment discrimination for its diverse gender identity or expression.

At one time we looked into having a job fair here in Connecticut for trans people and what we found was that we couldn’t get enough backers for it. In order to have one here we need a large LGBTQ+ organizations as a partner. Los Angeles has a population of around 4 million people… Connecticut has a population total of 4 million.

During the Obama administration, there were advances in transgender rights, such as the historic lifting of a ban on military service. But under President Trump’s conservative agenda there has been a rollback, including a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Trump’s decision to reinstate the military ban — and the revocation of federal policy that allows public school students to choose the bathroom consistent with their own gender identity.

I think many companies understand that the rollback in protections is only temporary once Trump leaves sanity will return.

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As news goes global so does the hate large new corps spread, the far right-wing National Review had this to say about  us.

Employees Quit NHS Transgender Clinic over Kids’ Experimental Treatments
By Mairead  Mcardle
April 8, 2019

Five employees of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) have quit a controversial NHS transgender-therapy clinic, citing fears that children are being misdiagnosed as transgender and given harmful and irreversible hormone treatments.

The five former clinicians at the Gender Identity Development Service, which is based in London and Leeds, expressed their concerns to the British daily The Times. Each of them was part of a team charged with deciding whether patients as young as three should be prescribed hormone blockers to prevent the onset of puberty. The number of child referrals to GIDS skyrocketed from 94 in 2010 to 2,519 in 2018.

Later when patients reached age 16, they would be prescribed a regimen of sex hormones in order to develop the physical characteristics of the gender with which they identify.

There is so much bias in just these paragraphs…

• Children don’t just start off on hormones or puberty blockers they go through extensive therapy
• Children don’t start off at the age of 3 or even at 10 with puberty blockers (note they don’t block testosterone or estrogen hormones they block the trigger for the start of puberty; they work by “suppressing the secretion of luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone”).
• Puberty blockers are giving when the child starts Tanner Stage II
• Yes they do start hormones at around 16 but it is only after therapy.
• Yes the numbers have increased but it is due mainly because there is more awareness of gender dysphoria.