Male-to-female transgender workers can see their earnings drop by nearly a third but activists are working to change that. InternationalWomensDay
Clayre Sessoms’s career was on track. After earning a bachelor’s degree in communications, she worked as a freelance copywriter for more than a decade, with a stint at New York’s renowned WNYC radio station as well as at marketing firms and advertising agencies. Between her strong portfolio and network of satisfied clients, she rarely had to seek out work. “I was successful,” says Sessoms, now 40 and living in Vancouver. “It was a great situation—until I started to come out.
She adds that “female-presenting people tend to experience all the discrimination that cis women [non-transgender women] experience”—plus the discrimination they face as transgender individuals. Ample evidence demonstrates a clear reduction in the earning power of the transgender community.
Hicks, too, is early in her career, but she’s already facing setbacks. She works part-time at a bar in Guelph where she knew the manager, supplementing that income with Ontario Disability Support, which she began receiving before her transition. But since she started presenting as a woman, she has not had a single job interview. “All a trans person wants is to be respected like everyone else and to be given the same opportunities as everyone else,” says Hicks.
Stories like this are all too familiar for advocate and public educator Dalia Tourki, a trans rights advocate and public educator at the Centre for Gender Advocacy, an organization affiliated with Concordia University.
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