What's with all of these attempts to put Black women into categories and boxes? Isn't it obvious by now that this is a [near] impossible task?
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Showing posts with label Career. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Career. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2012
Transgender Woman Wins Lawsuit and Returns to Work
After being fired from her job with the Georgia General Assembly, Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgendered woman, fought back.
She started working as an editor for the state assembly in 2005, a dream job for Glenn. The next year, Glenn informed her boss of her decision to become a woman. Soon, Glenn began wearing women's clothes on a regular basis to the workplace.
However, two years into building a dream job, Glenn's supervisor terminated her, calling her lifestyle, "perhaps immoral, perhaps unnatural." Glenn's boss said that the way she was dressed would make other people uncomfortable and that her gender transition would be disruptive. Glenn recorded the conversation.
In 2008, Lambda Legal filed suit on behalf of Glenn.
A U.S. district court judge found that Glenn was a victim of sex discrimination and ordered the Assembly to employ her again. The judge said, in a 19-page decision, that Glenn's firing met the criteria to fall under sex-based discrimination. The judge held that, "all persons whether transgender or not, are protected from discrimination on the basis of gender stereotypes." The 11th Circuit has held similarly that, "A person cannot be lawfully terminated because an employer objects to the way an employee expresses his or her gender."
After getting her job back, Glenn says about the bigots, "[T]hey don't have power over you."
Read more here.
She started working as an editor for the state assembly in 2005, a dream job for Glenn. The next year, Glenn informed her boss of her decision to become a woman. Soon, Glenn began wearing women's clothes on a regular basis to the workplace.
However, two years into building a dream job, Glenn's supervisor terminated her, calling her lifestyle, "perhaps immoral, perhaps unnatural." Glenn's boss said that the way she was dressed would make other people uncomfortable and that her gender transition would be disruptive. Glenn recorded the conversation.
In 2008, Lambda Legal filed suit on behalf of Glenn.
A U.S. district court judge found that Glenn was a victim of sex discrimination and ordered the Assembly to employ her again. The judge said, in a 19-page decision, that Glenn's firing met the criteria to fall under sex-based discrimination. The judge held that, "all persons whether transgender or not, are protected from discrimination on the basis of gender stereotypes." The 11th Circuit has held similarly that, "A person cannot be lawfully terminated because an employer objects to the way an employee expresses his or her gender."
After getting her job back, Glenn says about the bigots, "[T]hey don't have power over you."
Read more here.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Oprah's Academy Holds Its First Graduation
Oprah Winfrey opened her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls for underprivileged South African girls in 2007. Now 72 out of the 75 original girls are graduating with the help of her $40 million donation Saturday, January 14, 2012. South Africa is a nation still struggling from apartheid, and Winfrey has been committed to change the lives of those South African Woman.
Read the rest of the story here.
"Every single girl is going to leave here with something greater to offer the world than her body." --Oprah Winfrey
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