Holding down a job can be stressful at times for all of us. Imagine the additional weight of trying to hide or suppress a core aspect of who you are—your gender identity— for fear of being excluded or ignored by those you work with. Or imagine coming out as transgender at your workplace and encountering misgendering, jokes, and complete lack of support.
Read MoreAs a consultant practicing in the area of transgender inclusion, the clients that reach out to me embody this aspiration to be more inclusive of transgender employees and customers. At the same time, they share with me their worries about saying, or doing, the wrong thing and inadvertently offending the people they wish to support. The question I hear most often among employers: “What do we need to know that we don’t know?”
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