This is a lawsuit over the hostile work environment created after a transgender woman transitioned, where she was de-humanized, called "it" when guess what, it's 2016 and calling a trans person "it" when they've obviously been open and vocal about their gender identity through publicly transitioning is 100% disrespectful. Not only this, when she complained, she was fired, showing that said supervisor was more important to Valve than their transgender employees receiving basic respect. It shows a huge total lack of empathy and understanding of transgender issues if you think this boils down to an employee being mad they're called "it". It shows a total disregard for the feelings of those who, in the hostile world we live in today, have the courage to transition in the workplace, after what was likely a life of being closeted. And guess what, she still got fired for it.
I bet if this had been some supervisor calling a gay worker who came out of the closet things like "***" and other derogatory slurs for gay men that a lot more people, especially on this forum, would have a much bigger issue with this, but we still live in a world where people frankly don't give a **** about transgender women at all, and that's the disgusting truth about it.
oh yeah cos I'm sure you've never offended anyone by accident. Sorry honey but people don't always make the right decision. Happens every hour of every day.
It would be one thing if he referred to her with male pronouns, some people truly don't understand and if he apologized that would be fine.
You KNOW when you call someone 'It' that you are going to upset them.
It's totally dehumanizing.
Have any of y'all ever read any articles about lawsuits before?
People always sue for way more than they expect to get, it's kind of how it works...
She's sending a message to the company that this isn't OK and I don't blame her.
She'll (hopefully) get a portion of that 3M and the company definitely won't be so openly transphobic again.
