ABOUT THE PROJECT:

Male or female? An answer to the question is required on birth certificates, drivers licenses, social security cards, passports and many other forms needed for daily life. For many people, gender is considered an immutable, and defining, characteristic. To change your gender can be a dangerous undertaking. Will you be accepted by your friends, family and the world at large? What happens when you come out at work?

In this project, we attempted to find out how changing gender affected the work lives of three professionals: a communications director for New York Life, a manager at a Big Four accounting firm and a librarian at a public university.

ABOUT THE REPORTERS:

Lara Moscrip is a multimedia student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A native of San Francisco, she graduated from University of California, San Diego with a degree in Political Science and French Literature. She has worked as a copy editor at a California newspaper and as a reporter and desk editor for a San Francisco wire service. Some of her multimedia work is showcased at NYCInteractive.org. She freelances breaking news for the New York Post.

Amy Crawford is a newspaper student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
She graduated from Cornell University, then went on to work as an editorial assistant at Smithsonian magazine in Washington, D.C., where her byline appeared frequently. Her stories have also appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, where she has covered local controversies and profiled Brooklyn’s characters. The daughter of a foreign aid officer, she grew up in Morocco, Rwanda, Cote d’Ivoire, Virginia and Nicaragua.

CONTACT US:

transatwork (at) gmail.com