Walked out of my job today. For the last couple years at least we’ve had a side bathroom in the building that was used as the employee bathroom, and last week management decided that isn’t allowed any more with no warning and no explanation. I’m one of several trans employees who are there and we are all very upset about this, I made it explicitly clear that I don’t feel safe using a public bathroom and I know I’m not the only one. We’ve been making some efforts to continue using it anyways but after some back and forth, yesterday the key to the bathroom was either well hidden or taken out of the building completely, and then last night they literally drilled screws into the door frame to make sure we can’t use it.

That was the final straw, so this morning at a team meeting in front of everyone I read out some relevant statistics about anti-trans violence and talked about my own experiences with anti-trans violence (because I didn’t feel like they were taking my safety concerns seriously), told them again that I cannot safely work if I cannot safely use the bathroom, and then told them either they allow access to the employee bathroom again or I will not work until they do. They gave me some weasel-y answer and refused to respond when we called them out on things they said not being true or helpful, and so I left.

I wish I could have organized it as a full strike but we aren’t unionized and without going into too much detail the chances of us successfully unionizing is very low. At this point I might try anyways though cause there’s nothing left for me to lose here, I doubt I can keep my job if they wouldn’t even hear me out. I know several people are probably going to follow me and quit anyways because a lot of people are very upset both for me and themselves. Some of my coworkers were crying while talking to me after the fact. It just is so frustrating, I know that I do a good job and they know it too, I don’t want to quit, but what can I do. I’m just going to start looking for new work and stress about it until I can find something.

I spoke on the phone with the HR rep and my walking out of the meeting was considered abandoning my post or something and so as far as the company is concerned I have quit and that was my last day. I’m gonna push for unemployment anyways but idk if there’s anything I can do about it. I’m feeling really depressed about it ngl, I didn’t like my job at all recently but I still did a good job and would have stuck around if they didn’t effectively force me out. I hope I can find a new job soon.

So many people are saying that if you think she’s a shitty person for being pro-genocide, you’re transphobic/transmisogynist. Which is nothing new but, since I’m so divorced from drama nonsense most of the time I haven’t seen it in a while. So it just immediately made me flashback to my abusive ex trying to convince all of our mutual friends I broke up with them because I was a transmisogynist. Bc according to them I read their actions as masculine and got scared bc men are scary, not i got scared of being publicly insulted and shit talked for mildly disagreeing on something.

I hate it here