SAN FRANCISCO - In what may be the first legal action of its kind in California, a Cameron Park transgender person is alleging that co-workers and supervisors harassed her and tried to force her out of her job after she switched genders.Posted on 04/04/2006 7:52:50 AM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO - In what may be the first legal action of its kind in California, a Cameron Park transgender person is alleging that co-workers and supervisors harassed her and tried to force her out of her job after she switched genders.
In an interview Monday, Danielle Ryan described the hostile work environment that she claims developed at the South Natomas office of the international engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. A computer technology specialist, Ryan said incidents began 15 months ago, after she announced that she considered herself a woman and would start wearing women's clothing to work.
Ryan, 44, contends that for much of last year, co-workers bumped into her or made derogatory comments. She said she was eventually told by company officials that she could either work three more months and then leave the company, or work part time at a reduced wage.
"It was obvious they were pushing me out the door, while the environment was very hostile," Ryan said. "I would complain, numerous times ... and nothing would ever be done."
Judy Cooper, a New York-based spokeswoman for Parsons, said the firm had not yet been served with legal papers and therefore could not comment.
Ryan's lawsuit is based on a 2003 statute that amended the California Fair Employment and Housing Act to prohibit job discrimination on the basis of gender or perceived gender.
Several lawsuits by transgender people alleging they've been denied new jobs have been filed since the state statute was enacted, said Chris Daly, director of the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco. But Ryan may be the first California plaintiff to have transitioned to another gender while employed at the same job, . . .
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Tom Petty?
Consequences, freak. Consequences.
In any case, work harrassment should be judged on universal standards with no special rights for orientation or cross dressing.
Only a mentally ill person could think HE could walk into work wearing womens' clothing and not have it disturb and disrupt everyone else. There is no right to create a disruptive work environment, or to force acceptance of severe mental illness as normal.
San Francisco loves these freaks, sound like an inter-office love triagle. Danny-Boss-Danielle
It's outrageous that Californians are now required to accept freaks in the workplace.
Trans her/his ass to the street.
Transgender ?!?!?!? It's a wacked (pun intended) amputee dang it !........:o)
Unless he lopped off his pecker he's just a cross-dresser.
AFAIK, that's not a protected minority.
Yet...
Elimination or avoidance of the consequences of choices is the very bedrock foundation principle of the "progressive" philosophy.
Poor fella...someone tells him that it looked as if he put his makeup on in the dark and he falls to pieces.
My 10 year old niece is made of sterner stuff than him.
Transgender is an unusual thing. It must be so difficult to do what they are doing, and the stigma that goes along with it. However, they're their own worst enemy. I watched the first and only episode of THE SURREAL LIFE yesterday. It was on at my gym. Talk about nutcases of all sexual persuasions! But there was one transgender, happens to be someone named Alexis Arquette (from the David/Rosanna/Patricia clan). OBVIOUSLY the black sheep of the family. He/she is transgender. Of all the nuts on that show, he/she was the most articulate and brightest. I was thinking that his/her presence on the show could be a real boost for their cause. However, he showed his true colors in a scene, I guess they were drinking and someone said something he/she didn't like and it was ugly. The stereotypical insane rantings of someone with a mental illness. And there is the rub. Underneath all the makeup, it's a mental illness, not a physical one.
Fancy and new.......
Here's a Ryan with OEM parts. No comparison..
Maybe Danielle should telecommute.
Has she applied at Ringling Brothers?
They still have a freaks side show, don't they?
Sounds as if this shim needs to get to get a set, not lose one.
And not like this...LOL
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