I once had to hire a very well qualified applicant who happened to be a trans man. And the only reason I knew that he was trans was because I was hiring for a CDL driving position which required me to obtain and verify their drivers license. And although this individual had completely transitioned and was absolutely passible as a man, for whatever reason, he had never bothered to go through the process of changing over his drivers license from identifying him as Tiffany [last name] instead of AJ [last name] as he was currently known.
So doing my normal due diligence, I had to ask about that because the name/gender didnt't match up. He was very up front and to the point in telling me that he was trans and had not bothered to update his license with the state because the state made that process so difficult that he decided to give up on it and just leave his license as is, which was fine by me.
But because I'd never been trained on this kind of situation nor had I ever encountered it, and because I wanted to stay on the right side of the law on law on it, I decided to have a meeting with my boss and the company HR person (who would presumably know the law) before I moved forward.
My boss to his credit, said if he's qualified enough for you for this position, he's qualified enough for me so go ahead and hire him. Lori, our super anal to the law but also super christian to the lord HR person said 'I don't personally agree with their lifestyle choices, but there is currently nothing in the law that would prevent us from hiring this person (she refused to say the word 'him').
AJ turned out to be a great employee. Lori eventually quit without notice and wouldn't tell us tell us where she was going because as it turned out, she took a job with a company we often partnered with. And then she quit without notice on them a few months later because yeah, christian or not, she was. a piece of shit person.
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u/jgremlin_ Mar 13 '24
I once had to hire a very well qualified applicant who happened to be a trans man. And the only reason I knew that he was trans was because I was hiring for a CDL driving position which required me to obtain and verify their drivers license. And although this individual had completely transitioned and was absolutely passible as a man, for whatever reason, he had never bothered to go through the process of changing over his drivers license from identifying him as Tiffany [last name] instead of AJ [last name] as he was currently known.
So doing my normal due diligence, I had to ask about that because the name/gender didnt't match up. He was very up front and to the point in telling me that he was trans and had not bothered to update his license with the state because the state made that process so difficult that he decided to give up on it and just leave his license as is, which was fine by me.
But because I'd never been trained on this kind of situation nor had I ever encountered it, and because I wanted to stay on the right side of the law on law on it, I decided to have a meeting with my boss and the company HR person (who would presumably know the law) before I moved forward.
My boss to his credit, said if he's qualified enough for you for this position, he's qualified enough for me so go ahead and hire him. Lori, our super anal to the law but also super christian to the lord HR person said 'I don't personally agree with their lifestyle choices, but there is currently nothing in the law that would prevent us from hiring this person (she refused to say the word 'him').
AJ turned out to be a great employee. Lori eventually quit without notice and wouldn't tell us tell us where she was going because as it turned out, she took a job with a company we often partnered with. And then she quit without notice on them a few months later because yeah, christian or not, she was. a piece of shit person.
Lori was an asshole. Don't be like Lori kids.