Moral Georgia lawmakers could be offended by transgendered woman
November 5, 2009 at 12:56 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsThe AJC’s Christian Boone today brings us the story of Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgendered woman who three years ago was fired from her state Capitol editing job. Why exactly? Well, her higher-ups feared she might be “extremely harmful to work operations” and make state lawmakers uneasy and
Glenn, who was born Glenn Morrison, filed a federal suit against her former employers to get her old job back.
Here are some choice quotes from the deposition of Georgia Legislative Counsel Sewell Brumby, who was Glenn’s boss at the Capitol:
“It makes me think about things I don’t like to think about, particularly at work … I think it’s unsettling to think of someone dressed in women’s clothing with male sexual organs inside that clothing,” said Brumby, in a deposition taken May 11th in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. [...]
“I think some members of the legislature would view that taking place in our office as perhaps immoral, perhaps unnatural, and perhaps, if you will, liberal or ultra-liberal,” [Brumby] said.
Now on that last quote Brumby does have a point. The Georgia Capitol, after all, is a beacon of morality. No one’s ever raised flag about anything scandalous allegedly happening at the Gold Dome. Nope. Never. Check out Boone’s entire profile. UPDATE: Southern Voice has done an excellent job covering the story since it broke. Matt Schafer has a thorough article here.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Here’s what I’ve never understood. Why do people always sue to get their old jobs back. Jobs where clearly everyone is going to be a dick to you.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
“Jobs where clearly everyone is going to be a dick to you.”
Good one.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
@Ed
Generally if you win a wrongful termination suit, you receive at a minimum, back salary for the time she was out of work. In this case that would be a three years pay. Not bad, even if she decides to quit the day after she “gets her job back.”