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's employers have now officially been put on notice that transgender
discrimination won't be tolerated in the workplace.
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