Almost had a job - was all but hired, but whoops! I’m a gay trans man, should have considered that before I had hopes of being able to pay back my college loans.
What would be a realistic plan for driving straight down south to Mexico City and just knocking at every school door saying “¿necesitas maestro?” Or really, I’ll stop at the first city with access to testosterone and maybe a nice gay night scene.
I assume security going into Mexico is a lot easier to clear than the other way around? Visas probably cost money I don’t have LOL
Hearing your a certified teacher have you looked at Canada. Rural areas have teaching shortages, we pay well and are very trans friendly.
Mexico is extremely conservative and largely Catholic. You’d be driving into essentially a Spanish speaking Vatican City the size of half the USA.
As long as they don’t have access to my birth certificate, there’s no evidence that I am transgender.
Mexico City has a much better scene for queer folks if you’re serious. Though there is quite a bit of pushback currently about US remote workers moving down there and gentrifying.
I really don’t want remote work. I want to be in a shitty high school fighting the Good Fight. Like not in a self aggrandizing Freedom Riders or Dangerous Minds way, but in a “yeah I was arrested in high school too, let’s talk about it” way.
If there’s no evidence, why does it matter in the US? Not like employers have access to your birth certificate. Serious question.
They can background check and see that my SSN has been used with a female name.
For more information on being a US resident/citizen trying to get out of the US, and what your options are in various countries, I also highly recommend Trans World Express https://transworldexpress.org/wiki/Main_Page
The info there isn’t necessarily only useful to trans people, but mostly is aimed at trans people, since trans people are very vulnerable right now.
Driving straight south will be tricky as all of the major roads have turns at some point. Make sure you have a vehicle that can handle well off road.
Maybe he didn’t want to risk driving gay south, especially through states like Texas where they’re fragile about such things.
What makes you certain it was due to your sexual orientation or gender?
No one ever says “we aren’t hiring you because you are trans.” But vague allusions to background checks are the usual.
but if that’s the usual for non-trans too, do you think maybe the wrong excuses are being targeted? I really think the whole job structure itself needs a rework personally. The job hunt grind is debilitating emotionally tho–I fully understand the frustration/outrage it induces consistently
The state superintendent found out that a principal at a local school was a drag queen on the weekends (a well kept secret, no one in the community even knew.)
He demanded that the principal be fired, and showed up to that school EVERY DAY for weeks until the man was fired.
When you hear hoof prints, it’s reasonable to think horses.
It’s exceptionally reasonable, but if you look up to see zebras you’re going to feel a bit silly, right? I don’t really know what you’re getting at, but only because I’m not seeing where specifically you engaged with anything I said
A couple of years ago, I literally had a job hire me, put me through a week of paid training, and then when my background check came through, they immediately fired me and tried to not pay me - claiming that they had never hired me in the first place.
The only thing that would show up on that background check is the fact that I am trans.
I had another job, in college, doing shit work. Day labor. One day, the boss took a look at my drivers license and asked me about the F. No more work after that, had to fucking sell my body.
Yeah, no one says “we are not hiring you because you are trans.” But it happens. And when it happens enough, it becomes absolutely bloody obvious that it is going on. Just like when I watched my boss at a fucking fast food restaurant toss a black guys application in the trash, because “the last one of those didn’t work out” - do you think he said to that guy “yeah I don’t hire black guys lol.”
They don’t even have to lie about it anymore, the Supreme Court ruled that we aren’t protected anyway.
The worst part about experiencing systemic discrimination is that no one believes it happens unless you get a piece of paper saying “yeah we don’t hire removeds lol”
