> entry level job
> asks for 3-5 years of transgender experiencebut seriously piracy continues to be the most moral option
Apparently that's what it's like in the UK when you apply to be trans
Don't know what it's like in the rest of the UK, but in Wales this is mostly waiting times because there is exactly one gender identity clinic and it comprises of a ward in one of Cardiff's hospitals.
It's similar in the Netherlands except one of the big reasons the waiting lists are so long here is because they can't retain psychologists. The good ones think the system they have to work in is too dehumanizing to their patients and keep quitting. All of this because the insurance companies are fearmongering about the mythical detransitioners.
similar in Germany, lack of specialized psychologists is the biggest factor in gatekeeping. some of the waiting lists i'm on are a year long. wait times for psychotherapy are usually shorter, but most psychologists who haven't been trained in transgender care refuse to accept trans patients because they are afraid of misdiagnosing people and getting sued.
Usually those kinds of forms are voluntary for what it's worth. Ideally it wouldn't be legal to ask at all, but usually it's asked after the application is submitted, and there's a hyperlink to a "voluntary self-identification" form. I owned a few % of a SaaS startup that did applicant tracking software, which got bought by a bigger company and eventually went public. They collected voluntary self-identification data but it never went to the hiring manager/their HR/anyone at their firm. It was used purely to show anonymized reports about hiring practices. Eg, how many people of various self-identified groups were hired, went to second round interviews, were given negative feedback by manager X or employee B. Depends what features they used, but in theory a firm could use this data to identify bias and discrimination in hiring, and plenty did. Sometimes we'd roll it up across industries into reports and sell it, eg tech companies with 10-50, 51-200, etc were x% less likely to advance black/women candidates to the 2nd round of interviews. That kind of stuff.
