The man in the grey flannel skirt – cross-dressing in the workplace?
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2011/06/16/ab-887/Many businesses, especially those that involve public interaction, have dress codes that prohibit inappropriate attire. Recently we've seen challenges to dress codes that restrict religious freedom or are otherwise discriminatory. But what about freedom of gender expression? Should those who identify as transgender or transsexual be allowed to cross-dress at their place of employment if they choose? California Assembly Bill 887, the Gender Nondiscrimination Act, aims to strengthen civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens; one of those rights would be the right to dress as the opposite gender in the workplace. How would you feel being helped by a salesperson or clerk dressed in drag? Would it affect where you do business? What about the teacher at your child's day-care center, the receptionist at your doctor's office, the worker in the next cubicle? What about you – would you welcome the chance to express the real you in your work wardrobe?
