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• 1988-09-20
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• Female
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• Oxford,PA,USA
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• 2005-03-30
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• highschool student
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• Kateri Hall

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• surviving my freshmen year of highschool without killing any fellow classmates or teachers.
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• forever
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• Gundam Wing, Ranma one half, Inuyasha, Knights of the Zodiac, Full Metal Panic, Full Metal Al chemist, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop
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• to be in a punk rock band and actually make money
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myOtaku.com: kitty cat girl

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Equality
It’s fair to say that Diane Schroer has one impressive resume.
In her 25 year career in the United States Army, she completed over 450 parachute jumps as an Airborne Ranger qualified Special Forces officer, received numerous decorations including the Defense Superior Service Medal, and was hand-picked to head up a classified national security operation.

Until she retired from the Army as a Colonel last year, Diane had been David Schroer. "I knew I was different before I was old enough to remember things," she says. "My earliest memories are of just feeling I should be a girl and wondering why I wasn’t."

After careful deliberation with her doctor, she began the process of transitioning from male to female and started undergoing hormone therapy. While still presenting as a man, Diane found a job that she thought would be a perfect fit given her remarkable experience in the military – a position as a senior terrorism research analyst at the Library of Congress. She applied, was interviewed and indeed, the Library of Congress was impressed with her resume too. She was offered the job soon after.

But before starting, she had lunch with her future boss and explained she was transitioning and that in order to make things easier on herself and her coworkers, she would start her new job presenting as a woman. The next day the boss called her back and rescinded the job offer. Why, asked Diane. You’re not a "good fit," she was told.

Diane is now being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in a suit against the Library of Congress for sex discrimination under Title VII. Although Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating against all people who do not conform to gender stereotypes, including transgender people, cases like Diane's demonstrate how important it is that we work to pass a federal law that clarifies in no uncertain terms that it is illegal to discriminate against people in employment on the basis of gender identity and expression or sexual orientation. So far 16 states have laws to protect gay, lesbian and bisexual people and 6 states have laws to protect transgender people - leaving many GLBT people will little legal recourse.

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