"Now you tell me."
Posted on 10/24/2014 6:57:36 AM PDT by massmike
Tamara Lusardi, a transgender who transitioned from male to female, has won his case against the Department of the Army for discrimination and humiliation, based on a report from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC).
In 2010, Lusardi was working for the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center as a civilian employee, and announced that he was now officially beginning his transition from male to female. Lusardi changed his name and began dressing as a woman, at which point management held a meeting to accommodate Tamara in the workforce. Management supported Lusardi and repeatedly stated that they intended to treat him fairly and accommodate in any way possible, yet emphasized that they also wanted to ensure a safe workplace for everyone.
In light of these concerns, Lusardi voluntarily agreed to use the executive restroom, given that he had not undergone gender transition surgery and several female employees had expressed serious concern about sharing a restroom with a man presenting as a woman.
However, Lusardi didn’t stick to the agreement, using the female restroom on three separate occasions between January and March 2011. After females again reported discomfort, Lusardi was informed that he should continue to use the executive restroom as agreed, but he protested. But discomfort is relevant, according to the OSC, an office which holds that regardless of Lusadi’s initial agreement, he should be able to change his mind and use the female restroom whenever he sees fit. Employee preferences are irrelevant to the legality of the issue and must be changed through training.
Particularly egregious for Lusardi was the fact that one of his supervisors continued to refer to him as “Sir” in email communications. This made it difficult for Lusardi to sleep at night. Tamara also alleges that over the course of time he was denied work.
“[T]he Agency inappropriately restricted [Tamara’s] restroom usage, repeatedly failed to use her proper name and pronouns, and subjected her and her workplace conversations to increased review and scrutiny,” the report noted. The move represents a serious follow through of Obama’s executive order from July, which bans workplace discrimination against LGBT federal government employees or contractors.
As a part of OSC recommendations, the Army will now mandate additional sensitivity training for supervisors and employees regarding LGBT issues.
So put him on overnight guard duty. Problem solved!
He is still a he no matter the self mutilation. His DNA is xy and that is it. period.
This an office. There are no little girls or babies, just grow ups.
We had this issue where I work some years back, they ended up building a few bathrooms marked “unisex”.
He was a CIVILIAN employee, he was not military.
Huh? I BUY my wife hygiene products. How is that embarrassing?
Hasn't the military done this dozens of times? I remember back in the late '70's when I had to attend "sensitivity training" regarding women on Navy tenders and oilers. Once the training was through and they asked questions, I asked, "What is so wrong with seeing women as the better sex and wanting to protect them?" Boy, did I catch hell.
In Diego Garcia, our all male Frigate was tied up outside of a support ship that had women aboard. While waiting in line for shore duty, so poor guy mentioned softly how pretty a female sailor was when she walked by and immediately got yanked out of line by a female Chief Petty Officer and never saw him after. It was a simple compliment and not harassment, but he got Captain's Mast for that.
Sorry, "old salt" here, but I still believe that women should not be in certain military occupations. At the very least, the men have to walk on egg shells to protect their own as against the above.
At the worst, very very few females can qualify with Army and Marine basic training. Those that do, okay. But the lowering of quals has pissed me off to no end.
Last thought: Are women still intentionally getting pregnant so they don't have to deploy? It was a big problem in my Navy days (75-86). Or they would exaggerate their female problems and flown off the ship which of course made others take up their slack. I hate Patricia Schroeder.
I agree...and I’m a woman
30 years ago, he/she would have died from an unusual, but sudden suicide at work....and everyone would have testified, “we saw it coming....so sad”.
This is a trial balloon.
Why do people with the strangest opinions always have “Joined in 1998” on their home page? This is as strange to me as the Bermuda Triangle and the Loch Ness monster.
Liberals see the military as the government’s largest social program.
If God doesn’t judge this country, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
I don’t think that they sell feminine hygiene products in the lafies’s rooms any more.
Activists who are pushing this ladies room protection are wrong on the issue. It is like the wedding cake brouhaha. People have to pick their mountains to climb and not bother with the hills.
The ministers in Texas should not have involved themselves with the restroom issue. It had nothing to with religion and by getting involved, they opened the door for the over bearing mayor to walk in and demand their sermons, effectively creating a mony sin out of a mole hill, which be fought again, and again.
What is going on in Houston is exactly what I was afraid would happen with Gay marriage.
I certainly do not want any MAN privy to my private time in a bathroom.
Big difference in buying a box of them in a store and purchasing one and going into a stall where some perv in the stall next to me might get his jollies thinking about what I am doing.
Two questions Tamara Lusardi — Please take a look in your pants:
1) Twig, check
2) Berries, check
You’re a dude, use the men’s room you freak!!!
What is strange about thinking that Eric Hilder’s wife was not involved in a Fast and a Furious?
Maybe, it is your opinions that are strange. Ever think of that?
LGBT. T=Transgender. This has been their agenda all along. They have won on L,G,and B parts. They will soon force the military to take in these very confused people.
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