Transgendered Professor Talks About Losing Her Job in the Wake of.... / Lee Hancock.
by Hancock, Lee; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 74Human Relations. Publisher: KRT News Service, 2002ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Civil rights | College teachers | Discrimination in employment | Gender identity | Sex change | Transsexualism | TranssexualsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Janet Barger was the only professor at the University of Texas at Tyler told not to wear nail polish....And, despite three years of positive evaluations and suggestions that tenure was possible, Barger was told in February 2001 she would be fired in May 2002--as soon as the administration could legally make her go. The problem for Barger and the university was both basic and mind-bending: The 52-year-old engineer had come to UT-Tyler as a man in 1997." (DALLAS MORNING NEWS) This article profiles a transgendered professor who was fired after undergoing gender change treatment and discusses how transgendered people are working to expand their civil rights.
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Originally Published: Transgendered Professor Talks About Losing Her Job in the Wake of..., July 29, 2002; pp. n.p..
"Janet Barger was the only professor at the University of Texas at Tyler told not to wear nail polish....And, despite three years of positive evaluations and suggestions that tenure was possible, Barger was told in February 2001 she would be fired in May 2002--as soon as the administration could legally make her go. The problem for Barger and the university was both basic and mind-bending: The 52-year-old engineer had come to UT-Tyler as a man in 1997." (DALLAS MORNING NEWS) This article profiles a transgendered professor who was fired after undergoing gender change treatment and discusses how transgendered people are working to expand their civil rights.
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