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Title: Transgender training for TSA staff after agent 'fired for using women's toilet' wins payout
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Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... womens-toilet-wins-payout.html
Published: Aug 4, 2011
Author: Mark Duell
Post Date: 2011-08-04 22:25:48 by Sebastian
Keywords: None
Views: 3591
Comments: 11
A transgender TSA agent fired from her job at an airport for using the women's toilet has received a five-figure pay-out from the agency. Ashley Yang was fired from her job at Los Angeles International Airport after allegedly being ordered to dress like a man and pat down men. She had informed human resources that a background check would reveal she was born male and had not undergone sex reassignment surgery. Lawsuit: Ashley Yang was fired from her job at Los Angeles International Airport after allegedly being ordered to dress like a man and pat down men 'I feel female - I don't think anyone considers me male,' Ms Yang told In The Life. 'The hormones have given me a very female kind of look. It was obvious people perceived me as female because that's who I am.' Ms Yang has received back pay in addition to a five-figure award for pain and suffering as part of a civil rights settlement. 'They told me the only way to work at checkpoints for females was I had to go through a complete transition,’ she told In The Life. ‘I'm like: "How do you define a complete transition"?' In addition to compensation, her settlement requires TSA managers based at the California airport to have transgender sensitivity training. A TSA spokesman said he cannot discuss details of her case because of privacy rules, but the manager training started this summer. Ms Yang says she now wants to use her story and lawsuit as a 'leverage' to help other transgender people in the future. Mara Keisling, of the National Center for Transgender Equality, told In The Life that the employment situation for many trans people is 'catastrophic'. ‘We have an unemployment rate that's twice the national average. ‘When there's a recession and there are lay-offs the people who are most marginalised already in the workplace are the ones most likely to face additional scrutiny.'
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#1. To: Sebastian (#0)
. Honestly can you even imagine how fucked up it must be to live this person's "life"? They don't even believe their own body's sex. I feel sorry for them all. But that doesn't mean that society should give them special rights. We ALL should be EQUAL before the LAW. (I said "should be", didn't I?)
What's fucked up is the courts calling trannies normal and making live their freak show lives with them. Damn the federal government, damn the activist judges, and damn George W. Bush for federalizing airport security. Any fool could have seen shit like this coming.
Our insane activist judiciary has been utterly infested by these same militant queers. THIS is how the Left's Freak-Show performers have managed to enact laws that force the rest of us to accommodate this freak-show. Damn the federal government, damn the activist judges, and damn George W. Bush for federalizing airport security. Any fool could have seen shit like this coming. May we damn them all to hell's epicenter? Anyone who still believes either Dubya Bush or Rove weren't fags themselves cruising the Queer RNC Expressway are just plain delusional.
#10. To: Liberator (#8)
How dare you call two FABALOUS men/women/undecided like Boy Jorge and his butt buddy Turd Blossom homos! I hope they beat you with their purses over that!
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#4. To: Mad Dog (#1)
Honestly can you even imagine how fucked up it must be to live this person's "life"?
#8. To: Happy Quanzaa, sneakypete (#4)
What's fucked up is the courts calling trannies normal and making live their freak show lives with them.
Replies to Comment # 8. Anyone who still believes either Dubya Bush or Rove weren't fags themselves cruising the Queer RNC Expressway are just plain delusional.
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