A good download to save as a pdf and think about.
You’re going to love this:
I had a supervisor not even a year ago who, when I was introduced to “her”, was in the middle of the process of “gender reassignment.”
Co-workers informed me that prior to his transgender adventure, he was just one of the guys, a military vet in his original country (Ireland) who leered at women along with them and so on. Everyone was surprised by the new situation...
I was very uncomfortable having to interact closely with “her” on a nightly basis...”she” was rather arrogant, condescending, and discontent...I eventually gathered that “she” felt harassed and discriminated against at work; that there had been complaints about “her” insistence on using the women’s locker room in the earliest stage of transformation, that management had supposedly both bent over backward to accomodate and simultaneously micro-managed “her”, disciplining “her” on at least one occasion for the slightest dereliction of orders, allegedly.
The upshot of the story is that “she” wound up resigning and going into another field of work, complaining to the end about how “she” had been treated. I heard that she got $80,000 in an out-of-court settlement against our employer.
My position is that people such as “she” suffer from a mental illness and all, and should be afforded some compassion of course, but the concurrent (and perhaps greater) concern should be for the effect on workplace morale; the freakish discomfort caused to people like myself, to women in the locker room, and to others; for the overall rights of others around such a person not to be subjected to the will of a sick, twisted, and confused person to the point that we have to be affected, uncomfortable, and distressed ourselves. And of course there’s the economic injury to the company wrought by lawsuits from such people.