November 7, 2025
Trans Woman Comes Out to Coworkers — and Is Shocked by the Response
After Sending One Email Revealing She’s Trans, Jade Mali Expected Silence — What She Found in Her Inbox Days Later Changed Everything For Jade Mali, pressing “send” on that email was one of the most terrifying moments of her life. The 28-year-old regional manager at a real-estate technology firm had already come out as a trans woman in her personal life two years earlier, but revealing that truth to her coworkers — the people she saw every weekday, the ones who only knew her from Zoom calls and quarterly reports — felt like stepping into the unknown. In her own











