Buoyed in part by their company's commitment to LGBTQ+ people, Microsoft employees are fighting harder than ever for human rights in the workplace and around the globe.
From the time software engineer Michelle Chen was little, she loved wearing “boy’s” clothes and keeping her hair buzzed. This wasn’t a problem until one day in third grade, while she was leaving the girls’ restroom at her elementary school in Ohio. Several teachers stood outside the door, responding to someone’s complaint that there was a boy in the girls’ restroom.
“I had to laugh it off at the time,” Chen said. “But it absolutely crushed me inside.”
After that, the young Chen avoided going to the bathroom at school, opting to wait until she could run home after school because her house was the only place she felt truly safe.
Throughout middle and high school, Chen made accommodations to avoid awkward encounters, like the first day of gym in sixth grade when she begged the teacher to go into the locker room before her and tell everyone else that it was okay, she was a girl, she was in the right place.
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