Stanley-Eric-Captive-Genders-Trans-Embodiment-and-Prison-Industrial-Complex

Captive Gendersin Dallas, where I was lucky to have family to help me get back on my feet.Most people released from Texas prisons don’t have anyone to help them, somost have to commit more crimes just to survive. After all, $50 does notgo very far when you don’t have a job, food, and a place to live.My family witnessed me doing my best to look for work, odd jobs,anything to make a living. They watched me fill out hundreds of applications,fax resumes, search newspapers, drive to job interviews, go to companiesto apply for jobs, and do this every day for over a year. No onewanted to hire this ex-con transsexual woman on probation. All the applicationsask about my criminal history, sex, gender, name, and all theother information that employers use to disqualify this electronic engineertechnician and college teacher of computer science with over thirty yearsof experience.What makes job hunting so hard nowadays is that most applicationsmust be submitted over the Internet. Some of my probation stipulationsforbid me access to computers with modems, the Internet, or any form ofelectronic data transfer. The Texas Work Force (TWF) database is on theInternet, so I had to get permission from my Probation Officer (PO) tolog on and search for jobs. This is how TWF works: First you fill out thisreal long application on the Internet TWF database and a counselor runsit to check for matches of jobs versus skills, then prints out five for youto go check out. While you do that, the computer will send you a noticeof other matches, as they come up, by US Mail. The problems with thissystem should be pretty obvious. By the time you get to the company, theirpersonnel department has already reviewed and screened thousands of applicationsfor this job, hired someone, and closed the job out.Dallas has two large gayborhoods and my PO wouldn’t allow me totake the jobs that were guaranteed me by friends there because the storeshad a few (less than 10 percent of the stock) adult items for sale or rent,mainly items of GBLT nature. My PO said that if I even had one itemsold or rented that was an adult item, I could not take the jobs. [I think]a transsexual cannot get a job outside the gayborhoods if they are open andhonest on their job applications, even if they get past the name, sex, andgender questions, because of fears they have about customer and employeeresponses to a transsexual working at their company. So my probation wasrevoked and I was sent back to prison because I couldn’t pay all the courtmandated fees, for counseling and such.I was arrested at the PO’s office in full female attire and appearance.Taken to Williamson Country Jail for in-processing. A male LT there had210