sorta had no idea where to place this so here goes.


My work is full endorsing my transition, as far as protection, and trying to keep my comfortable and safe at work, but to help educate the other employee's my work asked me to find/ or make, a power point presentation, or find good factual info they can print out into big handouts, so they can do a orientation type seminar for other co workers, and educate them on whats going on and to explain my rights, and the disciplinary measures that will be taken against those who decide to try and be discriminatory.

does anyone know of any good pre existing documentation that explains what a transgendered/transexual person is, what the process is like/is.  What they should expect from us, and what we should expect from them, and ect ect?

or know if any good formats in which I can go about creating one myself?

The wiki has https://www.susans.org/wiki/Trans_101 which links to trans* primers. The SOC might be ok for explaining process although a bit wordy for something that may need to be easy to digest (considering it will influence corporate policy).

http://transgenderequality.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/ncte-releases-trans-job-discrimination-know-your-rights-guide/
This is good for explaining title 7 protections. while http://www.eeoc.gov/decisions/0120120821%20Macy%20v%20DOJ%20ATF.txt is the actual case in question.

  When I announced my coming out to my boss, with my union rep, they agreed to bring in a person from the local GLBT organization (OutfrontMn) to talk to my co workers.  This person answered all their questions and explained about transgender. I was not present at the time and gave them the freedom to ask any embarassing questions.  Everything has worked out great. 

Is this something you want to do? I understand what your work is asking you to do, but I would feel like I was just sticking a giant sign on my head that says, "HEY, I'm Transgendered, KICK ME."
Nevertheless. the susan's wiki page is awesome for information. If youre looking for laws on discrimination you'll need to check according to your state and maybe even your county/city. You could also find your company's discrimination policy and rehand that out. I know that every company has one, and is obliged to hand it out on trainning day, but most just throw it away, I sure did.
I do like to make powerpoints. Might I recommend some slides where you put pictures of trans people and ask, "can you tell?" Include pictures of cis people too and see if people get tricked up. Most pry will.

Quote from: Hippolover25 on September 13, 2012, 08:15:23 AM
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Might I recommend some slides where you put pictures of trans people and ask, "can you tell?" Include pictures of cis people too and see if people get tricked up. Most pry will.

I would not do this. Any game of "guess who the man is" is in poor taste, especially in a professional setting.

the whole idea of a slide show presentation is already demeaning in my opinion. 

The idea that you have to make a report to show everyone how different you are might cause people to hate you more than their phobias let up.

The easiest way for people to get over much transphobia in the work place is a strong boss that will tell their workers to essentially, put up or shut up.  Our workplace policy applies to every employee.  There is almost little way to make people sympathetic to you from a handout, its possible many will once they know you better.  And its possible many will not.  But work is a place to work.

I dont like the idea at all, I told them to do it themselves if they wanted to. Last thing i want its more people knowing after a few co-workers publicly outted me  anyhow.   I have no idea how they plan to go about all this, id just prefer they leave it alone and let me keep trying to go stealth. I dunno why they feel other departments I dont interact with need to be informed.

At the day I transitioned I wrote an email with a limited explanation to all of my co-workers and my most important external contacts, nothing more, nothing less. Of course, I offered everyone the opportunity to provide some additional explanation. However there was hardly any demand for that...

Quote from: Hippolover25 on September 13, 2012, 08:15:23 AM
Is this something you want to do? I understand what your work is asking you to do, but I would feel like I was just sticking a giant sign on my head that says, "HEY, I'm Transgendered, KICK ME."

Well I took quite a risk, given that I had only a temporary assignment.