Wendy_Marie
06-03-2011, 02:46 PM
As some of you who have read my thread titled "To Tell or Not to Tell" http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/showthread.php?154248-To-tell-or-not-to-tell...That-is-the-question! already knows...I am in the middle of a job crisis as my employment as a Driver/Transporter with my former company ended 05/31/2011...
I was recently approached by my former Supervisor who has now started up her own Transportation company doing the exact same type of work to see if I was interested in working for her...?
I decided that if I was going to take this job I was going to put all my cards on the table and tell her of my therapy and my Plans for transition in the next year so there would be no surprises or issues later.
I admit that she seemed hesitant at first, then wrote me an e-mail stating that she was fine with my transgender status and that my job offer still stood....
Fast forward now to this afternoon...less than 8-hours after I recieve the first e-mail message and now in another correspondence from her she states that the offer is contingent on what the agent Writing her Insurance policy has to say....?
My question is...Are Transgender persons at a higher risk or viewed as posing a significant Liability to these companies?
My driving Record is nearly spotless...one or two speeding infractions over a span of nearly thirty years, the last one being nearly fifteen years ago...I have absolutely no criminal back ground or history and have worked with this person for the last two years where I have been recognized for my job performance on more than one occasion.
Has anyone else had similiar experience when coming out to work? or am I just getting the long trip around to the brush off?
I'll climb off the soap box for now!
I was recently approached by my former Supervisor who has now started up her own Transportation company doing the exact same type of work to see if I was interested in working for her...?
I decided that if I was going to take this job I was going to put all my cards on the table and tell her of my therapy and my Plans for transition in the next year so there would be no surprises or issues later.
I admit that she seemed hesitant at first, then wrote me an e-mail stating that she was fine with my transgender status and that my job offer still stood....
Fast forward now to this afternoon...less than 8-hours after I recieve the first e-mail message and now in another correspondence from her she states that the offer is contingent on what the agent Writing her Insurance policy has to say....?
My question is...Are Transgender persons at a higher risk or viewed as posing a significant Liability to these companies?
My driving Record is nearly spotless...one or two speeding infractions over a span of nearly thirty years, the last one being nearly fifteen years ago...I have absolutely no criminal back ground or history and have worked with this person for the last two years where I have been recognized for my job performance on more than one occasion.
Has anyone else had similiar experience when coming out to work? or am I just getting the long trip around to the brush off?
I'll climb off the soap box for now!