Iowan transsexual talks about discrimination
Lauren Jansen, of Sioux City, Iowa, has spent the last year becoming a woman, slowly changing her hairstyle and her clothes, anticipating a surgery at the end of the year. However, her employer told her to "deal with her gender issues elsewhere" and fired her. As Jansen testified in front of the city council board voting on whether to include transgendered people in their non-discrimination policy, Jansen explained the downward spiral of her life as she has tried to become who she believes she is. When councilmembers use their religious beliefs to deny her rights, Jansen said, "maybe they need to retake American History 101 and read about the separation of church and state."
Sioux City Journal
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