Comments on: Transgender in the Twin Cities http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2005/05/09/transgender-in-the-twin-cities/ Culturally Queer News and Views from Abigail Garner Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:15:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Toby Hill-Meyer http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/2005/05/09/transgender-in-the-twin-cities/#comment-7 Toby Hill-Meyer Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:21:30 +0000 http://damnstraight.oversampled.net/index.php/2005/05/09/transgender-in-the-twin-cities/#comment-7 Unfortunately, gender identity protections usually have an exemption allowing employers to have dress codes, but simply allow people to use the dress code of the gender they identify with, not necesarily their sex. Even more frustrating is that the examples you give happen. A friend of mine was not allowed to wear earrings working at Fred Meyer's, and there was that case that went up to the Supreme Court (I think) just recently where they decided it's okay for employers to force women to wear makeup and cut her hair in a more feminine way! Even when the dress code for men wasn't nearly as strenuous. One other tid-bit of info. Minneapolis, MN was the first city in the US to have a gender identity non-discrimination policy in 1975. Unfortunately, gender identity protections usually have an exemption allowing employers to have dress codes, but simply allow people to use the dress code of the gender they identify with, not necesarily their sex. Even more frustrating is that the examples you give happen. A friend of mine was not allowed to wear earrings working at Fred Meyer’s, and there was that case that went up to the Supreme Court (I think) just recently where they decided it’s okay for employers to force women to wear makeup and cut her hair in a more feminine way! Even when the dress code for men wasn’t nearly as strenuous.

One other tid-bit of info. Minneapolis, MN was the first city in the US to have a gender identity non-discrimination policy in 1975.

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