Neither would the Reading Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, B&O Railroad, and Short Line promote her.
You might win, but you ain't getting rowboat money on damages. Juries hate these freaks.
"But around the same time she got that award, Berghorst said she was struggling to even get an interview for the more than a dozen jobs she applied for despite her impressive resume. That was in sharp contrast from earlier in her career when the 50-year-old was promoted regularly before her gender transition in 2018.
Berghorst said she had even previously held some of the jobs she was applying for and got positive reviews from her supervisors when she did them. Berghorst had worked her way up in the ranks to several different management jobs, but she decided to step away from a demanding roadmaster job in 2016 when she was struggling with mental health issues.
“I was going through quite a bit of stuff and getting ready for what would soon be my transition,” she said.
That prompted Berghorst to start looking into filing a discrimination complaint against the railroad and eventually to apply for the Federal Railroad Administration job she holds now as an inspector based in the Illinois city of Woodstock.
“I made that decision after it seemed that things were going nowhere with BNSF,” Berghorst said. “And I had my 30 years in, so I was locked into the railroad retirement.”