William Mitchell Law Review Volume 41 | Issue 1 Article 7 2015 We Hear You Knocking: An Essay on Welcoming "Trans" Lawyers Ellen Ellie Krug Follow this and additional works at: http://open.mitchellhamline.edu/wmlr Part of the Law and Gender Commons, Legal Profession Commons, and the Sexuality and the Law Commons Recommended Citation Krug, Ellen Ellie (2015) "We Hear You Knocking: An Essay on Welcoming "Trans" Lawyers," William Mitchell Law Review: Vol. 41: Iss. 1, Article 7. Available at: http://open.mitchellhamline.edu/wmlr/vol41/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews and Journals at Mitchell Hamline Open Access. It has been accepted for inclusion in William Mitchell Law Review by an authorized administrator of Mitchell Hamline Open Access. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. © Mitchell Hamline School of Law Krug: We Hear You Knocking: An Essay on Welcoming "Trans" Lawyers WE HEAR YOU KNOCKING: AN ESSAY ON WELCOMING “TRANS” LAWYERS Ellen (Ellie) Krug† I. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................... 181 II. THE STORY OF JOHN-TURNED-JENNIFER ................................ 182 A. John ................................................................................. 182 B. Jennifer ............................................................................. 190 III. THE TOP FIVE PRACTICAL TIPS FOR WELCOMING “TRANS” LAWYERS ................................................................................. 193 IV. CONCLUSION ......................................................................... 212 I. INTRODUCTION Given that the American legal community ranges from liberal to conservative, the following will surely be a newsflash for some: as of 2015, transgender persons are increasingly showing up in the legal profession. Yup, applying soon to a legal employer near you—or, holy cow, even to your own shop—will be a law school grad born in one gender who is now living, or about to live, in the other gender.