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S.F. Goodwill store hires transgender workers
Goodwill Thrives at SF Store
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Half a loaf...
..is better than no bread at all.
Angharad
Angharad
I guess I should have blogged on this before
I learned about it several months ago. One of the girls in out support group works for Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative and brought it to our attention, for any of us looking for work.
One member was hired, too.
Yjis is a bog step. the article was correct on one thing, too, and that is that they are actively looking for places they may be able to move, if and when they lose the space they are in. But Goodwill does intend to keep as many people as they can, giving them positions on other area stores if they cannot find another store in the Castro, or at least let them fill positions as they become vacant.
Holly
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
Great to hear!
Very cool, nice to see. But a couple of things made me wonder. For instance, thye writer kept hammering this point: "a sales associate who goes by the name Mia TuMutch," Was it really necessary to make this point every time she was mentioned? Pseudonym or whatever, why couldn't they just say 'sales associate Mia TuMutch"?
And then this bit just didn't make sense to me: "California is one of only 12 states where it is illegal to fire someone based on his or her gender identity, meaning that workers may be vulnerable if they transition while on the job." I would think the law would protect a worker who decided to transition while employed.
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.
I went outside once. The graphics weren' that great.
It does, but...
TG Law
That doesn't prevent discrimination, it just makes it possible to obtain legal redress.
It's against the law to buglarise someone's home. or snatch their purse, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Strange...
It has an Associated Press byline rather than a local reporter's even though it's a San Francisco-based story, and it didn't actually run in yesterday's Chronicle (as far as I can tell), just the SFGate online-only content. Not quite sure how significant that is, but I think a real Chron staffer wouldn't have caveated (is that a word?) the employee's name.
Eric