New Jersey business owner, professor addresses transgender rights.

Publication: The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Teresa M. McAleavy

Nov. 16--Jillian Todd Weiss has spent much of her life studying.

Law, public policy, sociology, Greek and Latin top the list. She has a J.D. and a Ph.D. She's practiced at prominent law firms, and is a consultant and a college professor.

Still, she struggles to understand why so many minorities are sometimes loathed. Having studied workplace policies on transgender employees extensively, she works with businesses on how to address the issue so few understand.

"If I could distill all the research I've done, it simply comes down to fear of the unknown," says Weiss, an assistant professor of law and society at Ramapo College in Mahwah.

"When I look at the 200 corporations that have adopted policies that deal with transgender employees,...

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