All Posts Tagged With: "transgender workers"
Majority of Workers Still Hide Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity at Work
From Human Rights Campaign
New “Degrees of Equality” report finds persistent negative climate for LGBT workers.
Washington, D.C. – A majority – 51 percent – of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers continue to hide their identity from most or all co-workers, according to a new report released today from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation that examines [...]
American Labor Movement Calls for Full Inclusion of LGBT Workers
AFL-CIO Convention Passes Historic Resolution on Diversity
From Windy City Times
PITTSBURGH, PA — If there were any doubts that the American labor movement stands strongly in favor of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) rights, they were set to rest the minute former United Mine Workers president Richard L. Trumka took the podium last [...]
Changing Genders: An Interview With the World’s Leading Sex Change Surgeon
By Karlie Pouliot – Fox News
Ever since Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono — now Chaz Bono — announced she was beginning the process of becoming a man – many have wondered what exactly a sex change involves.
In order to get that answer, FOXNews.com talked to Dr. Marci Bowers, an internationally renowned surgeon who performs more than [...]
New film festival to shine spotlight on gay community
By Donecia Pea – Shreveport Times
He’s the man with the diminutive stature and syrupy sweet Southern drawl that has endeared him to fans and kept them laughing for decades in his string of guest roles and recurring characters on some of TV’s biggest shows.
But Leslie Jordan is most recognizable to fans for his role as [...]
New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers
By JIM RUTENBERG – New York Times
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday.
The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and they could [...]
New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers
By JIM RUTENBERG – New York Times
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday.
The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and they could [...]
Activists pin hopes on Obama banning transgender bias
Deb Price
Six months ago, a highly decorated retired Army colonel told Congress of instantly going from “hero to zero” in the eyes of a prospective employer when she disclosed that she was in the process of changing gender.
Since that hearing, Congress has done nothing to protect transgender workers, despite evidence of outrageous job discrimination.
But a [...]
Doraville won’t discriminate against transgender employees
By APRIL HUNT
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Doraville has become the latest Georgia city to add transgender employees to its nondiscrimination policy.
The move means transgender workers — those whose biological and gender identity are not the same — cannot be fired or mistreated in the northern DeKalb County city. “We have never discriminated against anyone, and we never [...]
Doraville approves transgender protections
City extends nondiscrimination protection to its employees
By MATT SCHAFER
Doraville became the [...]
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