As a transgender person, I realize how important it is to have paid sick days. If you don’t know, a transgender person is just like anyone else, but refers to people who transition from one gender to another and/or their gender expression varies from conventional expectations of how they should look, act, or identify based on their birth sex. This can include male-to-female (MTF) or female-to-male (FTM) transsexual people. Some transgender people experience their gender identity as incongruent with anatomical sex at birth, such as the case with me. In order to medically transition in a...