Prepare. Educate. Embrace.
I will help prepare you and your company, or organization, to embrace the growing transgender population. I believe that an inclusive work environment, that actively embraces a diversity of people and ideas, encourages all workers to succeed!
Embrace diversity.
The National Center for Transgender Equality’s report on discrimination reported the following in February 2011:
- Ninety percent (90%) of those surveyed reported experiencing harassment, mistreatment or discrimination on the job or took actions like hiding who they are to avoid it.
- Forty-seven percent (47%) said they had experienced an adverse job outcome, such as being fired, not hired or denied a promotion
- because of being transgender or gender non-conforming.
- Over one-quarter (26%) reported that they had lost a job due to being transgender or gender non-conforming and 50% were harassed.
- Large majorities attempted to avoid discrimination by hiding their gender or gender transition (71%) or delaying their gender transition (57%).
- The vast majority (78%) of those who transitioned from one gender to the other reported that they felt more comfortable at work and their job performance improved, despite high levels of mistreatment
In May 2011 Katie Johnston Chase from the Boston Globe reported that, “The study, by the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, a think tank at the University of California Los Angeles, found that more than three-quarters of 283 transgender Massachusetts residents surveyed have experienced some form of employment discrimination, including losing a job, being denied a promotion, or not being hired at all. As a result, the state is paying out nearly $3 million for public health insurance coverage to transgender residents who have lost their jobs due to bias, according to the study.”
