January 17, 2022 In a culture that still largely views gender on binary terms, transgender people in America face unique challenges in the job-application process. Half of transgender respondents to a recent McKinsey survey indicated they couldn’t be their full selves when applying for jobs. Only 33 percent of cisgender applicants indicated the same.
To read the article, see “Being transgender at work,” November 10, 2021. Back to Charting the path to the next normal
I don’t understand why diverse outliers, whether their diversity is skin color, actual qualification for the job, sexual orientation, or image, (supporting the ’employer’s brand’), expect—no, demand that employers and society at large welcome them with open arms. They seem to want the world-at-large to “include” them, but they don’t want to “include” or respect the majority culture in which they live.
Personally, I respect everyone’s right to choose for themselves. But please Y’all, don’t try to force or impose your choices and values on me. Like you, I’d prefer to make my own choices. And since “birds of a feather flock together” that could mean that you may be excluded from my network of friends and business associates. So, if you’ve mutilated your body with cosmetic surgeries, piercings, tattoos, sex changes, weird hairdos, or costumes, inconsistent with the branding image I want myself and my business to project, then please start your own business and cater to customers and friends who will support you.
About Binary
You were born binary. If you’re not happy with that, you may consider mental health therapy and learn to live with it. The only other natural observations: birth defect (mutation). In that case, I’m all for doing what we can for you to make the best of your life.
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