{"id":12578,"date":"2011-04-13T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12578"},"modified":"2011-04-13T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T19:57:19","slug":"just-another-day-at-the-medical-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/just-another-day-at-the-medical-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Just another day at the medical lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El&#8217;Jai Devoureau, a woman who decided she was really a man, embarked on hormone therapy and surgery to release her inner man before starting a highly sought-after job watching other men urinate. After the discovery that Devoureau&#8217;s outer appearance didn&#8217;t entirely match her inner aspirations, she was fired because her employer only hires men to watch other men urinate. Devoureau is suing because her employer \u201c<em>discriminated based on birth gender<\/em>\u201d; Devoureau wants to continue watching men urinate.<\/p>\n<p>El&#8217;Jai Devoureau\u2019s lawyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1376413\/Headline-Transsexual-sues-drug-treatment-centre-sacked-job-monitoring-men-giving-urine-samples.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">commends her courage<\/a> &#8211; not, as one might think, for taking the job in the first place &#8211; but for &#8220;drawing a line in the sand&#8221; on behalf of the all the other ex-women waiting to take up similar employment:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1376413\/Headline-Transsexual-sues-drug-treatment-centre-sacked-job-monitoring-men-giving-urine-samples.html?ITO=1490\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;As our society becomes appropriately more tolerant, I hope that there are more brave people that are willing to endure the collateral problems by drawing a line in the sand and saying they won&#8217;t stand for discrimination,&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And a professor of law muses on unusual interview questions that lab employees may have to look forward to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;I would have absolutely told them to retain the employee and think about how to address transphobia and heterosexism in their environment.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t ask someone: &#8216;What do your genitalia look like?&#8221; she said. &#8216;That was a very poor choice on the employer&#8217;s part.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of which makes me grateful that I work with computers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El&#8217;Jai Devoureau, a woman who decided she was really a man, embarked on hormone therapy and surgery to release her inner man before starting a highly sought-after job watching other men urinate. After the discovery that Devoureau&#8217;s outer appearance didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/just-another-day-at-the-medical-lab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[721,2152,1069],"class_list":["post-12578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-confusion","tag-eljai-devoureau","tag-gender-confusion","tag-medical-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}