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<blockquote data-quote="payn" data-source="post: 8459454" data-attributes="member: 90374"><p>I find it hard to believe a company would be transphobic and actually hire someone trans. I would assume there was a policy in place that bars non-married cis folks from sharing a room. When leadership was presented with the request to bypass the policy, they had to make a decision. Allow this exception and create a precedent for it, or just stick to the blanket policy and deny it. Of course, there was a third and better option to amend the policy to allow for a transfolk room policy, but Paizo leadership missed this opportunity. </p><p></p><p>Since its a D&D website, I'll just say companies often take on lawful alignments. They like tradition and are ridged, it helps protect companies and employees, but is often bureaucratic and slow to adapt. Our entire society is trying to learn how to accept and mend our traditions and norms to allow transfolk to exist in an equitable manner. Social change is difficult and doesn't happen overnight. That doesn't excuse Paizo leadership, they made a bad call here, but I do think it explains how they are not specifically transphobic. A policy that says "no transfolk can represent the company, and thus cant attend cons period" would be transphobic. This just seems like leadership pointing to a policy and shutting it down to not deal with it. Which they are now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="payn, post: 8459454, member: 90374"] I find it hard to believe a company would be transphobic and actually hire someone trans. I would assume there was a policy in place that bars non-married cis folks from sharing a room. When leadership was presented with the request to bypass the policy, they had to make a decision. Allow this exception and create a precedent for it, or just stick to the blanket policy and deny it. Of course, there was a third and better option to amend the policy to allow for a transfolk room policy, but Paizo leadership missed this opportunity. Since its a D&D website, I'll just say companies often take on lawful alignments. They like tradition and are ridged, it helps protect companies and employees, but is often bureaucratic and slow to adapt. Our entire society is trying to learn how to accept and mend our traditions and norms to allow transfolk to exist in an equitable manner. Social change is difficult and doesn't happen overnight. That doesn't excuse Paizo leadership, they made a bad call here, but I do think it explains how they are not specifically transphobic. A policy that says "no transfolk can represent the company, and thus cant attend cons period" would be transphobic. This just seems like leadership pointing to a policy and shutting it down to not deal with it. Which they are now. [/QUOTE]
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