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Transgender Understanding & Sensitivity
There is no "one" trans experience, but there are shared experiences within the trans community. Let's explore.
What's Available?
Keynotes, Training, Tools and Resources
I offer a variety of ways to help you, your leadership, employees and companies come to a fuller understanding of trans identities and how you can be more inclusive and welcoming.
- Keynote speeches
- Review of your organization's inclusion status and needs
- Training for leaders and people managers
- Facilitating conversations and learning
- Exploration and training for employees
- Presentations to Employee Resource Groups
Explore
Vocabulary: Get it Right
Words matter. They can heal; they can hurt.
- Read all about it: PFLAG National Glossary of Terms
- NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ journalists' Stylebook on LGBTQ terms
Pronouns: Use Them
Why? It's inclusive. It invites others to do the same. It opens up a conversation. She/her; ze/zir; they/them; he/el. Whatever your pronouns are, use them and display them.
- LinkedIn allows you to display your pronouns on your profile. Find out how here.
- I introduce myself this way: "My name is Catherine Hyde and my pronouns are she/her."
Here's an illustrated article from HBR: How to Talk About Pronouns at Work, A Visual Guide
Inclusive Employers offers this explanation of why they are important in email signatures
Understanding the Environment
- How the LGBTQ+ Community Fares in the Workplace, McKinsey & Company
- TIME Magazine article: "Young People Are Taking Control Over Their Gender Identity"
- Gallup reports LGBT Identification in US Ticks Up to 7.1%
What Can You Do?
- State your pronouns
- Include your pronouns in digital communications
- Use gender-inclusive language
- Identify your own biases. Take the Harvard Implicit Bias Test focused on trans bias
- Join and donate: PFLAG, HRC, ACLU, Lambda Legal, your state's Equality organization
- Get training; get more training
- Partner with an organizational development professional with LGBTQ+ experience
What Can Your Business or Organization Do?
- SHRM's Guide to Ensuring Workplace Inclusion for LGBTQ+ Employees (requires you to register and log in)
- Inc.'s How to Have an Inclusive Workplace--Even When You're Sill Working From Home
- Human Rights Campaign, 2018, A Workplace Divided: Understanding the Climate of LGBTQ Workers Nationwide
- HBR's How Managers Can Support a Team Member Who Is Transitioning
- Inc.'s How Should Business Owners Respond to Increasing Threats of Anti-LGBTQ+ Violence? With Compassion
Quiz: Is Your Company Welcoming?
It's one thing to think (or hope) your company is welcoming to the trans and ally community. It's another to do an honest review of what you have in place to actually be welcoming.
- Take this Trans Understanding Quiz to test your company's readiness to welcome the trans and ally community
Coaches, this quiz is a great way to start a conversation with your clients. It can be cobranded with your logo. Reach out to me to learn more.
Learning Opportunities and Resources
- PFLAG Straight for Equality Webinar on Supporting Trans and Nonbinary Loved Ones
- Harvard's Implicit Bias Tests lets you delve into your biases on a variety of topics
- Time's article: Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Gender Neutral Pronouns
- PFLAG Straight for Equality's Guide to Being a Trans Ally
- PFLAG Straight for Equality offers a variety of trans ally materials
- HBR's How Managers Can Support a Team Member Who Is Transitioning
Plot Yourself on the Gender Spectrum
We all have a gender expression. We all have a gender identity. And they are unrelated to our sex assigned at birth and our sexual orientation. Tease out these various facets for yourself and others in this fun plotting game.
Eager to Learn More?
Whatever your exploring style, we've got you covered!
- TO READ: Transgender Reading List for Adults (PFLAG)
- TO WATCH: 15 Best Transgender Movies to Watch Right Now (Good Housekeeping)
- TO LISTEN: 20 LGBTQ Podcasts That Will Make You Proud Year Round (Oprah)
- TO PLAY: LGBTQ Games, Some of the Best Queer Storylines and Award Winning Hits (Forbes)