I am super lucky. I work at a video production company, and I love my job. I pretty much just started transitioning and didn’t tell anybody, just grew my hair out, started dressing more fem, and gradually had softer features from E. Then one day during a Monday morning meeting, my boss had me close the door, which was unusual. He and I went through all the stuff that we needed to get done during the week, nothin’ crazy, and then once we had a good plan together, he goes “Ok, cool. Sounds good… ARE YOU TRANSITIONING?”

It hit me like a train haha. I stammered for a bit, and then told him that yes, I was. I told him what name I was going by with my friends, and he changed my company logins and emails and everything to match my new name the very same day.

I know in a lot of work environments, that kind of personal question would be out of line, but at the time, the company was me, my boss, and one co-worker, and I consider my boss to be a friend of mine. We get along famously.

He’s been super supportive the whole time, and I feel really fortunate to be in the position I am.

the interruptions, credit stealing, and mansplaining were no longer incogruous with my understanding of my gender. Which was … retroactively confirming in an infuriating kind of way.

I also had way more confidence afterwards because I was no longer pretending to myself nor anyone else to be a boy or a man. It turns out that that’s a huge mindfuck and takes a massive amount of energy to maintain.

Once I was free of all of that, I was able to engage with a genuineness and curiosity that people around me noticed and reacted positively to. I went from being someone who probably had more potential than they were showing, to a well-liked leader and innovator.

I still had to deal with sexist (formerly understood as bullying) bullshit, but once I trained those people in on how not to talk to me, many of them became my strongest allies.

while perceived as a white cis male I would get regular raises and I’d move up the ladder by changing companies

since transitioning I’ve watched as my salary has slowly declined year over year.

I’m in software engineering fwiw

I worked in a 97% women field, so for me nothing changed.

I am very curious to see what new discrimination I will see once I socially transition at work, as there was a fair bit when presenting male.

I was unemployed and am still unemployed.

I’ve been at my current job for several years. Started HRT a little over 2 years ago and still “boymode” at work. Given the region of the US I live in and the nature of my job, I’d probably have a lot harder time getting hours if people recognized I was trans.

I want to transition but I scared of how this might impact my current job. Most people in my team don’t seem to be super transphobic, but I still wouldn’t feel safe comig out.

Also I have family members who deppend on my support, so if I lost my job it would affect them as well.

Maybe I could stard doing HRT secretly, but idk for how long I could do it.

After coming out of the closet I quit my job at the metal workshop. Only rural conservative folks there.

I tried college again but failed. I worked some blue collar job and factory work. I felt less dysphoric around men than women. And office work isn’t bad either, I could finally wear skirts, dresses and nice shoes to work. But in the end I am looking to go back to some blue collar environment. Wanna work with my hands more. I dont mind that I’d wear more work clothes, I am more butch already.

i still don’t like my job. but overall coming out and going on E helped me regulate my emotions better. so even my boring job has become bearable-er.

i don’t know what else to do, too.

I was lucky to have my male privilege to get my job but really I want to change too. I’ll probably wait the end of my contract otherwise I won’t have unemployment benefits. So I have to push through 2 more years.

I have a remote job where I mostly interface with the computer, very little human interaction. My boss is supportive, which is all that really matters. I have some shitty coworkers but the worst so far has just been that they avoid talking to me in the already limited capacity we had. My day to day changed very little.