Do you think your sexuality or gender issues influenced what job you do or how you work?

Question

I am a chef by trade yet I now work in department store and a pre op m2f transexual
I found many gay people in both careers many in the closet

Over the past few months I have spoken to many gay & transgender people around the world and found many others are chefs or were training has one at some time
or work in the IT / computer sector

So I am asking do you think your sexuality/ or gender issues influenced the job/ work you do?

love the stereotypes it is what the question is really about

do we try to live as the sterotypes of our life or work

Answer 1

Personally, I dont intend to work any jobs (if I can help it) where I can't be myself. I can completely understand how someone might hear a stereotype, and believe it (consciously or not) and tend to think that there'd be a higher concentration of accepting people there. Because of that, more and more queer people ARE drawn in, and it becomes true, which reinforces the stereotype. And it self-perpetuates from there.

Answer 2

you may help a guy or woman with out staying with a guy or woman. If he choses to alter his gender you probably did not sign up to be in a dating with a woman, he has no marvelous to assume that of you. it is relatively frankly unfair. it is likewise something that could have arise in treatment besides. As to will it constantly be on his ideas, definite it is going to, extremely if he keeps to work out a therapist approximately it, it is not going to pass away, as he got here across in the time he's been with you. How a techniques he has to take it is yet another situation. I do think of you owe him a minimum of a sturdy stable sit down communicate approximately it, one the place you don't get positioned off and indignant. in keeping with possibility even a team consultation along with his therapist. After which you will the two could come again to a determination what the destiny holds.

Answer 3

I've been to trans support groups and talked to/read about quite a few transwomen that are engineers and IT professionals. Far more than an average sampling of the general population. Many have also been into music. Heck, I'm trans and working on my degree in Networking and Communications Management.

As for my sexuality, I'm lesbian. I like alternative and folk music as well as a little jazz. I like cats and softball. I don't shave as often as most American women. My hair is cut really short. I like flannel and combat boots.

I fit lots of stereotypes...

Answer 4

Well yeah, obviously it does. Didn't you know all us lesbians are unshaven, man hating, commune living artists?

No, just kidding..sorry, hon.
Although I am an artist, I'm not unshaven, I don't live in a commune, and I certainly don't hate men.

I don't know though. I think it may have something to do with how society views our outward appreance and what they would expect us to be doing.

Answer 5

in a way yes, striaght guys wouldnt become a makeup artist, they are all gay guys...its because they are more female than male and so they chose a job or career in the field that they like..