TheJackOnline.org – By Sarah Hardy
After gender reassignment surgery in 2005, Karin Fresnel was told that people did not want to work with her because she was transgendered. She received a demotion at her job and was told that her office would be closed.
She eventually lost her job as a geologist for a private consulting firm, and chose not to sue her employer because she felt it would damage her reputation in the geology community, Fresnel told the Bay Area Reporter. Fresnel is a Eureka resident and board member of Queer Humboldt, a resource group for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community in Humboldt County.