• Authenticity and Resilience with Tamara Layne

  • Mar 13 2024
  • Length: 56 mins
  • Podcast

Authenticity and Resilience with Tamara Layne

  • Summary

  • In a world that often challenges the very essence of identity, being authentic to oneself as a transwoman is not just an act of bravery—it's an act of resilience because you must come out every single day you are navigating a society that may not always understand or accept you.

    Our guest, Tamara Layne has found the ultimate triumph in living as her true self and being a beacon for others are working toward doing the same.

    Tamara Layne is a 59-year-old transwoman who was born in Canarsie, Brooklyn and now lives in Suffolk County Long Island. She currently runs a department at Altice USA, has a master's degree in HR Management, and is an LGBTQ+ advocate who seeks to educate on transgender issues and facilitates a transgender support group at the LGBT Network in Long Island.


    What You'll Learn:

    • What allyship and friendship look like


    • Steps to coming out at work and how to manage this if you are the first person in your organization to come out


    • Difficulties to be a transgender woman in the workplace
      • Make .60 cents on the dollar
      • Twice as likely to be unemployed
      • More than half are not comfortable being out at work
      • Trans find more biases and discrimination during the interview process so don't get hired in secure & stable white-collar careers and don't have promotion access


    • The mental health struggles of trans adults, 42% of trans adults attempted suicide & 56% engaged in non-suicidal self-injury (Williams Institute School of Law at UCLA - July 2023)


    Contact Info

    Tamara Layne

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tamaralayne1


    Information & Resources:

    Companies are Failing Trans Employees, HBR 2023 Article


    Catalyst.org Workplaces that work for women - June 2023 article


    The LBGT Network


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