Rather than trying to compare groups of men and women, Schilt and Wiswall looked at people like me. They measured our earnings and employment experiences before and after our gender transitions, and found significant changes. Of course, you could argue that the study merely proves that employers have a problem with transgendered workers. But the results also show that those of us who had transitioned from male to female suffered a loss in earnings of nearly one-third, whereas those who moved from female to male increased slightly (1.5%). Have transgender women lost our competitive drive, ability to handle conflict, and willingness to put in the hours as a result of changing genders? Or do employers have more of a problem with women than men?

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