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 # For the Transgender Community, Work Can Be a Difficult World To Navigate

 

##### By Katie Johnston

 

 

 Feb 15, 2023 1:30 PM ET

  ![" "](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-15%20at%208.52.01%20AM.png "Matisse DuPont (right) spoke to potential employers while attending the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce's job fair focused on the transgender community on Jan. 17.ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF") Matisse DuPont (right) spoke to potential employers while attending the Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce's job fair focused on the transgender community on Jan. 17.ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF 

 

[Originally published in the Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/12/business/transgender-community-work-can-be-difficult-world-navigate/)

Trevor Boylston had started transitioning from female to male a decade before he started working at Boston Scientific, and he had no plans to reveal his true self to his new coworkers. Boylston has a stocky build and a beard and is married to a woman — “seemingly straight,” as he puts it. But about six months after he started at the medical device company, around the time Caitlyn Jenner transitioned, a coworker started making transgender jokes. And Boylston decided he couldn’t stay quiet any longer.

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