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Originally Posted by Jet
I had a lengthy post that I lost on my phone
Bottom line
I'm in the creatve field where company image is everything
I'm in an at will state where you can get fired for any reason
This aint gonna fly no matter how you cut it
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I'm also confused. I thought you were talking about sending a letter with your resume and cover letter. That's how I read your posts.
Just because you're in an at will state doesn't mean they can necessarily fire you for being trans. It means, you need to research what city, county, and state ordinances your place of work has to follow.
It also means you're going to have to keep a LOT of documentation. You are really really really going to want ANY conversations you have with coworkers, higher ups, etc in email. Trust me on this one.
IF you live in a city/county/state with a gender identity ordinance, I highly highly suggest finding out how much the people who monitor that ordinance (in Austin, it's called the Human Rights Commission/and EEOC) KNOW about gender identity. We DO have an ordinance in Austin, but the people who monitor that sort of thing here are completely ignorant as to what it means. When I filed my complaint after being fired for being trans, they kept lumping me into the gay arena (which there was never an issue at my company with being gay...the issue didn't arise until I came out as trans). The EEOC people couldn't grasp what the problem was. Even after I filled out the paperwork, they changed the wording in my paperwork to reflect a queer issue...which it just wasn't. I had to go back three times, and I finally had to take an advocate with me to speak for me, so I had a witness.
You are going to have to arm yourself with knowledge, and you're going to (probably) have to educate some people. Sad but true.
The best thing you can do though is FIND OUT FIRST what your rights are. The second best thing you can do is DOCUMENT every single interaction with an email. For realz. Sad but true again.
Dylan