In the work that TransFocus undertakes with companies, we function as gender detectives investigating the mystery of why transgender people face challenges, or missing from company life. What we encounter in our explorations and discoveries is that there are often age-old practices that are deeply ingrained and unquestioned that complicate trans participation in or access to companies.
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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