In August, Brewer's accounting colleagues held a "ladies' lunch" at a Mexican restaurant. All nine of Brewer's co-workers in the department are women. Only Brewer wasn't invited. Instead, Brewer says, they were asked to stay behind to answer phones.
Gillette, with Basic Rights Oregon, says transgender people commonly experience such harassment at work.
I read the article and it raised the suspicion (again) that the reason so many people who claim to be trans are “bullied” is because they are extremely difficult people.
The whole thing was difficult to read due to the ungrammatical use of they/them, where he or she is appropriate.
I genuinely can’t imagine trying to remember to use they/them in speech. I can just about manage it when typing, but it’s not easy.
So I can easily imagine relationships quickly becoming frayed if someone insisted on their use and was impatient when mistakes were made.
And extrapolating from that, I can imagine all the women in the office seizing upon a way to socialise without asking the person they perceive as the source of the discord.
When I see the constant claims of harassment at work, I wonder how many are related to being trans and how many are due to the high co-morbidity with personality disorders.