cont.

If you don’t talk about your personal life at all, you don’t form connections or friendships with your co-workers. You are perceived as ‘distant.’ That is not a behavior that tends to lead to promotion or professional recognition.

The remaining option is to change pronouns and names. This is a nuisance. Forming relationships with co-workers based on lying is not likely to lead to long-term friendships. If you do form friendships, you have to go to great lengths to keep your work friends away from your real friends, where ‘real’ is defined as people you don’t feel compelled to lie to.

My state (NC) just recently passed a "School Violence Prevention" bill that specifies several groups at risk for "special treatment" from bullies, including "sexual orientation, physical appearance and gender identity". The right wing christian adult (ex child-bullies themselves, I'm sure) were up in arms because the law now protects ALL kids, not just the ones meeting with "their" approval. We've been fighting for that law for 2 years, now. Just waiting on the Gov. to sign it. It's a pretty good law. Check it out = S526.

Good for NC! Hope it isn't empty legislation.