Judy Bridges – who serves on the board of Live Open, an LGBT employee-resource group at Malvern’s Saint-Gobain – recently discussed being transgender and how it has impacted her job, writes Suzi Nash for the Philadelphia Gay News.

Nov. 12-19 was Transgender Awareness Week.

Bridges first realized she was “uncomfortable in her own skin” before she was six years old, but it took until high school in the late 1970s before she finally looked it up. However, her feelings had not been clear until she read Kate Bornstein’s Gender Outlaw.

Since then, she has been married for 30 years and has built a successful career in the drywall division at Saint-Gobain. In her view, working for an international company has revealed the different outlooks people have.

After officially “coming out” to the company, she was asked to join the board of Live Open to provide a trans voice.

Now, despite learning so much, she still feels there is more she can learn. So she “encourages employees and supporters of the LGBTQ community to be fully open and honest about who they are as individuals.”

Read more about Judy Bridges in the Philadelphia Gay News here.

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