New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers

[Shana A]

New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers

By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: June 23, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/us/24transgender.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes

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 also be included in other materials for managers. They will list transgender people — those who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — as among several groups protected by antidiscrimination laws.