Hello anti-work community, I am in a bit of a pickle involving my employer. Some background info: I work in the mental health industry and I am transgender. About a month ago I was involuntarily sent to the hospital for suicidal ideation while I was at work. While at the hospital I was given resources and medication to help get me on a path to recovery. Work is the number one reason for my mental breakdown and I had been honest with them up til that point about how my mental health wasn’t in a good place and I need to be able to work less hours so I could take care of myself. (My weeks were frequently 50-60 hours long and they offered me no relief.) So of course I hit a breaking point. I took 5 days off after my hospitalization to adjust to my medication and prepare to go back to work with a healthy mindset. I had a meeting with my supervisor and HR before returning to work where I asked for some accommodations with scheduling so I could go to therapy and have the rest of the day to process. I even compromised with them that I would work a half day on that day since they weren’t willing to just give me the whole day off. HR told me that my supervisor didn’t have to make these accommodations for me and that she was doing it because she was a good person. My first week back was fine, although my coworkers were oddly avoidant of me and I just chocked it up to the stigma around suicide. Shitty of them, but it happens. No one welcomed me back and I decided that I was just going to do what I needed to do during my shift and that would be that. No more answering messages outside of work unless I was clocking in to do so, as I am an hourly employee. And if no one was going to respond to my messages outside of their working hours why should I? Half a week goes by and I’m scheduled to have a meeting with my supervisor. I wasn’t sure what it was going to be about but I didn’t think anything of it. Then the meeting was joined by regional HR. They told me that I’m a bad leader, that I make people uncomfortable, I’m aggressive and people don’t want to talk to me and feel they can’t do their job because of it. This is news to me as I always tread lightly with my coworkers especially since trans men are often stereotyped as aggressive. They cornered me in this meeting, beat me down and then asked me if I had anything to say about it. They would not give me any specific information about why people thought this and so I had nothing to back myself, and I was far too upset to even be able to think about what they could be referring to. Few days later, my supervisor called me while I was driving to work (30 minutes away) to tell me I was suspended until further notice while they did an investigation on me (HR was also secretly on the line). I asked again what this was about and was met with vague answers yet again. I go a week without hearing from them at all and today get a call at 2, and I didn’t answer because I knew they would try to corner me again. Then I received a text stating I had until 4 to call her back and give my statement. I messaged back saying I would give a statement when I knew what this was regarding but she still gave me no answer and they want me to do it verbally and not written. This feels sketchy to me. I reached out to local law firms but it’s Friday and no one is available until Monday and that’s when I have to talk with my supervisor and HR. I am at a loss here and not sure what to do but this feels very illegal and discriminatory of them. Any advice is appreciated.