sneepsneepsneepsneep replied to your post: btw you guys if you don’t know yet: takoma park,…
huh i had no idea
ye! sadly it doesn’t seem to be big news, but it happened! i actually know some of the people who were involved, even \o/
People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.
I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.
A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?
It is a big deal because i’m a transman.
It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.
Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.
At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.
At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.
TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.
I no longer feel bad for dropping a fuck ton of money at target the other day
My HR manager at Target is gay and when she was in college she was an RA at a gay/trans dorm. If you want to be addressed by genderqueer pronouns she is more than happy to. Her wife comes to help us zone sometimes, and she refers to her as her wife even though gay marriage is illegal in my state.
Target isn’t perfect but they’ve made their acceptance of gay/trans/genderqueer employees very clear from the start.
btw you guys if you don’t know yet: takoma park, maryland now has a voting age of 16. first in the country. things are happening fuck yes \o/
sneepsneepsneepsneep replied to your post: having feelings about gavroche
skree but bro u are gavroche
omg thank, that is one vote of confidence
oh i see javert and jean valjean are going to play to one of my favorite tropes
skreeee there’s something so grand and uniting and uplifting about revolution stories though
god this entire movie is themes and moral ambiguity thank
just turned in 42-page document. hopefully the five-minute delay can be attributed to internet and not disqualify my final omg
