Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Transgender Issue Plays Key Role in Anti-Bias Legislation | workforce.com

Transgender Issue Plays Key Role in Anti-Bias Legislation | workforce.com: "While ENDA could be stymied by a conservative-leaning Congress in 2011, Weiss remains optimistic about progress on the state and municipal levels. “I am very confident that the number of states and municipalities that will be obtaining transgender employment protections over the next five years will be significant,” she says. “If you come to a legislator in a particular state and say, ‘We are advocating for transgender employment protections,’ you can point to several major employers and states that already have these protections in place.”"

This is a well-written article on the future of trans protections in the workplace. We have far to go, but we have also come so far.