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So check this out. I finally have a data point to use to prove this. I've been out of there about six months. One of my friends recently transitioned male-to
by rachelbythebay 15y ago
So check this out. I finally have a data point to use to prove this. I've been out of there about six months. One of my friends recently transitioned male-to-female. This is a unique opportunity to find out, right?
She is now being passed up by people visiting her team's cube to ask about things regarding the service. Their default response is to go ask the guys in the cube instead.
"Welcome to my world", I said.
- lsc 15y agoI'd expect discrimination against transexuals to be much stronger than anything else, so I'm not sure that proves anything about how women in general are treated. One of the things I notice is that the satisfaction levels of men and women I know working at google, even normalizing for skill level, is vastly different. You don't sound particularly happy; why are you still there? my impression is that there are other places with cultures that are better at least in that regard.
- rachelbythebay 15y agoI left back in May. Now I'm in a spot where the culture is entirely my own creation: working for myself. If it works, then I win.
- z303 15y agoMy experience at work but not at Google, has been your standard sexism really accounts for most of discrimination, which I've put down to being seem as not a man. Yes you get get some extra problems being trans but way less than I expected pre transition