Deathlok
10-28-2005, 03:24 PM
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-10-26T213223Z_01_KRA677525_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-TRANSGENDER.xml&archived=Fa
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - What box should you check on a job application -- male or female -- if neither one is quite right?
That's just one of many issues organizers hope to tackle at what they are calling the nation's first "Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Job and Education Fair," slated for early December in New York.
From cross-dressers to people who have surgically changed their sex, transgender people often encounter trouble going to school or getting jobs, organizers said at a City Hall news conference.
"Today I'm a model of stability, but I think back to when I was waiting tables and turning tricks," said Melissa Sklarz, 54, an activist and a manager at a credit union. "It's time for us to leave the streets and take our place in mainstream culture.
"It's time for us to be taken seriously," said Sklarz, who was born male.
By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Reuters) - What box should you check on a job application -- male or female -- if neither one is quite right?
That's just one of many issues organizers hope to tackle at what they are calling the nation's first "Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Job and Education Fair," slated for early December in New York.
From cross-dressers to people who have surgically changed their sex, transgender people often encounter trouble going to school or getting jobs, organizers said at a City Hall news conference.
"Today I'm a model of stability, but I think back to when I was waiting tables and turning tricks," said Melissa Sklarz, 54, an activist and a manager at a credit union. "It's time for us to leave the streets and take our place in mainstream culture.
"It's time for us to be taken seriously," said Sklarz, who was born male.