Transgender in the Work Place
Transgender In The Workplace: An Idea Whose Time Is Now It’s a remarkable moment to be openly transgender and working for a living. Extraordinary progress has occurred in this timely area of business interest over the last dozen years or so. For example, in the year 2000 there were only three Fortune 500 companies with anti-discrimination protection for transgender employees. Today, nearly half of the Fortune 500 organizations have adopted policies that protect transgender employees from discrimination. Despite various political efforts to pass a transgender-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), there is still no federal statute that protects transgender workers. However, in an amazing turn of events, in April of 2012, the federal government’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects transgender workers from on-the-job discrimination. The ruling formally took effect on May 23, 2012, and the nation'