I was laid off from @Vice on Friday. Now there's no one who reports on trans issues there anymore.
I worked there for 5 years and by 2020, almost all the people who had been actively investing in the development of the trans coverage that I built at Vice is gone.
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The person who laid me off came to the company a year ago to change things, and never once sat down with me to discuss my work over the previous four years. I watched the company disinvest in me and so many women of diverse experience these last 12 months.
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The choices you make say what matters to you. It's heartbreaking that Vice thinks it's a good business decision, as a 'youth media company,' to move forward under the Trump administration without anyone qualified to cover trans issues as I did for so many years.
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I was the only trans woman at Vice, that I know of, for 4.5 years of my 5 year term at the company. It became a very different place a year ago and I will always be grateful to the teams I worked with when the company seemed enthusiastic about working with me.
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Two years ago I successfully bargained in the Union contract negotiations to obtain expansive trans coverage on our insurance plan. I explained how trans care is medically necessary and Vice agreed to expand coverage to include everything for trans people, like everything.
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I was in the final stages of securing a surgery date around the time COVID-19 came and trans procedures were put on hold. I have to wonder whether that occurred to any of the people determining whether or not I should lose my job.
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I am grateful for the people at Vice who believed in me for so long and will never forget what they did for me as I move on in this incredible career.
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Dear Diana, this is so painful, but maybe you will find after all of the pain and the growth that will come with that it is a new beginning, you have a community here, you have a beautiful and wise voice, and you do speak. Be kind to yourself and let the love in, and express.
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