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When they learned she was transgender IBM fired her.
Lynn had managed to put together some fragile bits of support and help from her family and friends. However, when IBM fired her everyone lost confidence in what she was doing and her support system collapsed. Lynn went abroad for her surgery, all alone. She had lost not only her career and professional reputation, but also her family, relatives, friends and colleagues. She faced a frighteningly uncertain future without a soul in the world to help her other than her doctors.
When Lynn returned, she made her social transition and took on her new name. She started her career all over again as a lowly contract programmer without a past. A gritty survivor, her adjustment in her new role went completely against the dire predictions of the IBM executives and all the family and the friends who had deserted her. All alone she went out into the world, made new friends and worked hard to succeed in her new life.
https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/LynnsStory.html
IBM along with other large corporations realized they had made a grave mistake. Unique stealth departments were set up to find and hire transgender hoping to find more like her. Problem was, even among those like her, she was special. We are all individuals, no two alike although those outside looking in think transgender all come from the same mold.
Reading the Doom and Gloom on this channel as many run through the airplane claiming "we are all going to die", makes me doubt the intelligence of my class of people. Maybe Erin and the ladies should shut down and scrub BCTS so everyone here is erased from history? My problem is I'm so out there and with the Way Back Machine I'll always be out there until eternity.
Please excuse me if I don't join the Pity Party as I have attitudes and minds to enlighten. I'm still busy writing to anyone with a TV camera, or a blog, or anyone in politics and begging for a chance to discuss the truth about transgendered. And if you wish to help, give emotional support to all those like us crying out for help. Surprisingly I found what they, and it seems most here, truly need is to know someone cares about them.
Jill wrote a very powerful story "Station's Late Night Princess". In the story the actress said and I paraphrase,"if you want it work for it, don't beg." Might apply that to what each one wants out of life.
Hugs People
Barbie Jean Lee
Life is a one time gift to use anyway we choose.
Comments
Pity party
I disagree, 'it is not all about you' (in terms of it is not all about LGBTIQ) is more the sentiment here.
There is no pity party, it is more like outright anger at this point.
The jerk wants to play dictator with all of his 'executive orders' even if a lot of it will be illegal but that will have to go through the courts and slow down any effective response to his intentional abuses.
For some of us he is stripping all protections that allow us to keep our jobs as employers can now be open season in terms of deciding anybody who is LGBTIQ be arbitrarily fired.
He is instituting a regime of turning back literally decades of civil rights that has supported the Public Good, possibly leaving employers with more arbitrary rights to hire and fire.
You (Barbie Lee) may even literally get your documentation change to female be reverted to male if he has his way as your current documentation change was via an executive order so he can reverse it.
Me, I can potentially lose my security clearance. I am no rocket surgeon so will not be able to work classified jobs which would potentially lead to loss of work.
The potential to lose the ability to have gainful employment is not a 'pity party' situation.
Thing is, he can play this game only so far until somebody will get fed up and do something about it.
Luckily I am of retirement age, being above 62, but not of full retirement age, so can limp into retirement if necessary even now.
I cannot emphasize how important it is to have solid retirement savings for everyone right now.
Of greater importance is what this will have for ALL our countrymen under this madman.