Sting reveals anti-trans job bias

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The D.C. Office of Human Rights on Tuesday released the findings of a six-month study that showed 48 percent of employers appeared to prefer at least one less-qualified job applicant over a better-qualified applicant perceived as being transgender. The study involved sending 200 “test” cover letters and resumes prepared by OHR to 38 employers that advertised 50 individual job openings, according to an OHR statement. The statement says OHR sent two sets of cover letters and resumes to each of the advertised job openings from “applicants” who appeared to be transgender and another two sets from applicants who were portrayed as non-transgender. “The study is the first known government-conducted resume testing to focus on discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming job applicants,” OHR said in its statement.
The report includes these findings:
Forty-eight percent of employers appeared to prefer “at least one less-qualified applicant perceived as cisgender (individuals who do not identify as transgender or gender non-conforming) over a more qualified applicant perceived as transgender.”
Thirty-three percent of employers offered interviews to one or more less-qualified applicants perceived as cisgender while they did not offer an interview to at least one of the better-qualified applicants perceived as transgender.
An applicant portrayed by OHR as a transgender man with work experience at a transgender advocacy organization “experienced the highest individual rate of discrimination” by employers responding to the test applications.
The restaurant industry had the “highest percentage of responses perceived as discriminatory among the employment sectors tested, although the sample numbers are low and therefore not conclusive.

www.washingtonblade.com/2015/11/04/sting-reveals-anti-trans-job-bias/    

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Big thumbs down on this article. Or one big middle finger.

I do know one industry that accepts us as women. I know another that don't give a shit but you won't make as much money. Driving a truck sux more than the other one though. I don't wear a suit and tie anyway. I don't want to wear a pantsuit. If so I may run for congress or the senate. Hell I have better sense and a whole hell of a lot of more common sense than those assholes. Sorry that was uncalled for because I should have used the word Idiots.

I think the best thing to do is start your own business. You will face shit no matter what. But you have a driver's finances in your hands if they drive for you. You pay them good and they don't give a damn if you are Pennywise the Clown as long as they get paid fairly for what they do. they give a shit if I write their checks in a skirt and blouse or jeans and T shirt.

Just in case of what people may think the drivers say behind my back????... I have one driver that is trans friendly and won't lie to me and nothing is bad is said about me. I lose money on their layovers. Especially four or five days when business is slow. But they are paying more for food than me. They may want to get out of the sleeper and stretch their legs in a motel room. So Layover pay is 100 percent the drivers. As long as I don't have to be out there. I do know what they go through though.