Transgender Employment Experiences

Transgender Employment Experiences
Author: Kyla Bender-Baird
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438436769

The complex and changing state of policy protections for transgender communities practically requires trans people to become legal experts just to navigate their everyday lives. It also simultaneously offers a window of opportunity for legal advocates to shape new laws and policies based on the lived experiences of trans people. Using personal interviews, legal case histories, and transgender theory, Transgender Employment Experiences combines policy analysis with the lived experiences of twenty transgender-identified employees, showing how worker protections that should exist under the Civil Rights Act are instead systematically undermined in the case of many transgender employees. Rather than focusing solely on negative experiences, however, Kyla Bender-Baird also highlights the positive experiences her respondents had coming out at work, illustrating examples of best practices in response to transitioning. Bender-Baird covers many forms of discrimination that transgender workers face, such as harassment, gender-based dress codes, income-related inequities, bathroom policies, and background checks. Drawing from this analysis, she argues for protections for gender expression in policy decisions, legislative efforts, and for a multipronged approach to workplace discrimination. With its effective balance of personal stories and legal guidance, this book is a much-needed resource for those in the field of gender and employment, from policy analysts to human resource managers to queer studies scholars.

The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace

The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace
Author: Vanessa Sheridan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2009-07-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313365857

In this groundbreaking work, an expert in transgender explains practices and policies that will lead to a healthier, happier workplace. As The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace demonstrates, there is a strong business case for treating transgender workers with dignity. Its tips, guidelines, and policy examples will help organizations enhance the bottom line, while keeping the workplace harmonious. The most in-depth and informative volume on transgender workers ever written, the book offers useful tools, practical information, and a variety of resources that will enable business leaders and organizations to deal effectively with the transgender phenomenon. It will also help workers struggling with their identities and will give strength to those who are secure, but have yet to come out. There is no doubt that this guide will become the leading resource for every business owner, CEO, manager, HR/EEO professional, and transgender worker. Better yet, it will improve the cultural climate and quality of life for transgender workers and the organizations that employ them, resulting in increased productivity and improved profitability.

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act
Author: American Dental Association
Publisher: American Dental Association
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2017-05-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1941807712

Section 1557 is the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This brief guide explains Section 1557 in more detail and what your practice needs to do to meet the requirements of this federal law. Includes sample notices of nondiscrimination, as well as taglines translated for the top 15 languages by state.

Becoming a Visible Man

Becoming a Visible Man
Author: Jamison Green
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0826522882

At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies. Since the first edition's publication, author Jamison Green's writings and advocacy among business and governmental organizations around the world have led to major changes in the fields of law, medicine, and social policy, and his (mostly invisible) work has had significant effects on trans people globally. This new edition captures the changes of the last two decades, while also imparting a message of self-acceptance and health. With profoundly personal and eminently practical threads, Green clarifies transgender experience for transgender people and their families, friends, and coworkers. Medical and mental health care providers, educators, business leaders, and advocates seeking information about transgender concerns can all gain from Green's integrative approach to the topic. This book candidly addresses emotional relationships that are affected by a transition, and brings refined integrity to the struggle to self-define, whether one undergoes a transition or chooses not to. Emphasizing the lives of transgender men—who are often overlooked—he elucidates the experience of masculinity in a way that is self-assured and inclusive of feminist values. Green's inspirational wisdom has informed and empowered thousands of readers. There is still no other book like Becoming a Visible Man in the transgender canon.

A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care

A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care
Author: Sand C. Chang
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1684030544

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TNGC) clients have complex mental health concerns, and are more likely than ever to seek out treatment. This comprehensive resource outlines the latest research and recommendations to provide you with the requisite knowledge, skills, and awareness to treat TNGC clients with competent and affirming care. As you know, TNGC clients have different needs based on who they are in relation to the world. Written by three psychologists who specialize in working with the TGNC population, this important book draws on the perspective that there is no one-size-fits-all approach for working with TNGC clients. It offers interventions tailored to developmental stages and situational factors—for example, cultural intersections such as race, class, and religion. This book provides up-to-date information on language, etiquette, and appropriate communication and conduct in treating TGNC clients, and discusses the history, cultural context, and ethical and legal issues that can arise in working with gender-diverse individuals in a clinical setting. You’ll also find information about informed consent approaches that call for a shift in the role of the mental health provider in the position of assessment and referral for the purposes of gender-affirming medical care (such as hormones, surgery, and other procedures). As changes in recent transgender health care and insurance coverage have provided increased access for a broader range of consumers, it is essential to understand transgender and gender nonconforming clients’ different needs. This book provides practical exercises and skills you can use to help TNGC clients thrive.

Transgender 101

Transgender 101
Author: Nicholas M Teich
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0231504276

Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination. Chapters introduce transgenderism and its psychological, physical, and social processes. They describe the coming out process and its effect on family and friends, the relationship between sexual orientation, and gender and the differences between transsexualism and lesser-known types of transgenderism. The volume covers the characteristics of Gender Identity Disorder/Gender Dysphoria and the development of the transgender movement. Each chapter explains how transgender individuals handle their gender identity, how others view it within the context of non-transgender society, and how the transitioning of genders is made possible. Featuring men who become women, women who become men, and those who live in between and beyond traditional classifications, this book is written for students, professionals, friends, and family members.

Employers' Guide Supporting Successful Gender Transition

Employers' Guide Supporting Successful Gender Transition
Author: Nikki DiCaro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2016-12-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781520225760

This book as an efficient and practical guide to help employers understand and support transgender employees as they undertake gender transition. The book is short and direct. It addresses practical questions and realities of gender dysphoria and offers recommendations on supporting your employee(s) as they complete gender transition and also enables your organization to effectively implement and nurture diversity and equality. This change your employee is contemplating is significant, monumental and may be perceived as unbelievable and unacceptable. They are brave and probably fearful of rejection, ridicule, retribution and losing their livelihood. Your transgender employee is undertaking this journey out of absolute necessity. Your employee comes to you suffering from dysphoria, a medical diagnosis. Just like any other illness your employee is vulnerable physically, emotionally and psychologically. The need to reveal their true self is not a lifestyle choice.The sense of relief your employee will experience from not having to constantly move back and forth across the gender continuum should deliver renewed energy and focus; helping them to continue to be a valuable member of your workforce.Transition creates a changing landscape; impacted by all the variables in a person's life. Transition is challenging and difficult but not impossible; unless your or your transgender employee fail to understand the implications of the decision. This guide, along with my corollary guide, The Practical Guide for Gender Transition, should be read together. Following the directions in these guides will enable you to understand what you, the employer, can do to support a healthy transition process, to address your concerns and questions and to help you, your transgender employee and your workforce learn, understand and support their colleague. Working together openly and honestly will also fulfill any legal obligation you may have to all of your employees. Planning and thoughtful execution should enable you and your organization to attract and retain quality employees and to emerge from this process with a reasonable likelihood of success.

Leading Change

Leading Change
Author: John P. Kotter
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422186431

From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented merger and acquisition activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. By outlining the process organizations have used to achieve transformational goals and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work.

The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace

The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace
Author: Vanessa Sheridan
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-07-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313365849

In this groundbreaking work, an expert in transgender explains practices and policies that will lead to a healthier, happier workplace. As The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace demonstrates, there is a strong business case for treating transgender workers with dignity. Its tips, guidelines, and policy examples will help organizations enhance the bottom line, while keeping the workplace harmonious. The most in-depth and informative volume on transgender workers ever written, the book offers useful tools, practical information, and a variety of resources that will enable business leaders and organizations to deal effectively with the transgender phenomenon. It will also help workers struggling with their identities and will give strength to those who are secure, but have yet to come out. There is no doubt that this guide will become the leading resource for every business owner, CEO, manager, HR/EEO professional, and transgender worker. Better yet, it will improve the cultural climate and quality of life for transgender workers and the organizations that employ them, resulting in increased productivity and improved profitability.