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Authenticity and Resilience with Tamara Layne
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In a world that often challenges the very essence of identity, being authentic to oneself as a transwoman is not just an act of bravery—it's an act of resilience because you must come out every single day you are navigating a society that may not always understand or accept you.
Our guest, Tamara Layne has found the ultimate triumph in living as her true self and being a beacon for others are working toward doing the same.
Tamara Layne is a 59-year-old transwoman who was born in Canarsie, Brooklyn and now lives in Suffolk County Long Island. She currently runs a department at Altice USA, has a master's degree in HR Management, and is an LGBTQ+ advocate who seeks to educate on transgender issues and facilitates a transgender support group at the LGBT Network in Long Island.
What You'll Learn:
- What allyship and friendship look like
- Steps to coming out at work and how to manage this if you are the first person in your organization to come out
- Difficulties to be a transgender woman in the workplace
- Make .60 cents on the dollar
- Twice as likely to be unemployed
- More than half are not comfortable being out at work
- Trans find more biases and discrimination during the interview process so don't get hired in secure & stable white-collar careers and don't have promotion access
- The mental health struggles of trans adults, 42% of trans adults attempted suicide & 56% engaged in non-suicidal self-injury (Williams Institute School of Law at UCLA - July 2023)
Contact Info
Tamara Layne
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tamaralayne1
Information & Resources:
Companies are Failing Trans Employees, HBR 2023 Article
Catalyst.org Workplaces that work for women - June 2023 article
Get your free copy of our digital magazine, GEN neXt, The Voice of the Modern Gen X Woman. www.moderngenxwoman.com/gennext
GEN NeXt is a collection of insights from incredible organizations, women, and industry experts who have dedicated themselves to the same cause—turning up the volume of women 40+.
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Manage episode 406214774 series 2992188
In a world that often challenges the very essence of identity, being authentic to oneself as a transwoman is not just an act of bravery—it's an act of resilience because you must come out every single day you are navigating a society that may not always understand or accept you.
Our guest, Tamara Layne has found the ultimate triumph in living as her true self and being a beacon for others are working toward doing the same.
Tamara Layne is a 59-year-old transwoman who was born in Canarsie, Brooklyn and now lives in Suffolk County Long Island. She currently runs a department at Altice USA, has a master's degree in HR Management, and is an LGBTQ+ advocate who seeks to educate on transgender issues and facilitates a transgender support group at the LGBT Network in Long Island.
What You'll Learn:
- What allyship and friendship look like
- Steps to coming out at work and how to manage this if you are the first person in your organization to come out
- Difficulties to be a transgender woman in the workplace
- Make .60 cents on the dollar
- Twice as likely to be unemployed
- More than half are not comfortable being out at work
- Trans find more biases and discrimination during the interview process so don't get hired in secure & stable white-collar careers and don't have promotion access
- The mental health struggles of trans adults, 42% of trans adults attempted suicide & 56% engaged in non-suicidal self-injury (Williams Institute School of Law at UCLA - July 2023)
Contact Info
Tamara Layne
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tamaralayne1
Information & Resources:
Companies are Failing Trans Employees, HBR 2023 Article
Catalyst.org Workplaces that work for women - June 2023 article
Get your free copy of our digital magazine, GEN neXt, The Voice of the Modern Gen X Woman. www.moderngenxwoman.com/gennext
GEN NeXt is a collection of insights from incredible organizations, women, and industry experts who have dedicated themselves to the same cause—turning up the volume of women 40+.
We're not just Gen X we're GEN neXt
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