My brother is co-chair of Canadian Aviation Pride (CAP) and has asked me for input aimed at developing webinars for employers and employees in the aviation industry regarding treatment of trans and transitioning employees.
QuoteCAP has been asked buy one of the airlines (Jazz) to consider developing a series of webinars for their staff, and they have offered a couple of topics which they are currently most interested in:
• for HR: Trans hiring/onboarding, retention, supporting a transition, inclusion considerations. Maybe there will be some inspiration for conversations that happen at our conference next month.
• for all: working with Trans people. Diversity of Trans. Being supportive when a coworker is transitioning. Inclusive language/ pronouns. What if you make a mistake.
Any ideas or thoughts which you have for these topics would be very welcome. It's a great opportunity for us to contribute and have our community's voices heard, so CAP wants to run with it.
I will be sending him my own thoughts, but I retired before coming out, so I have no experience with being trans or transitioning in a workplace. So I would appreciate any suggestions or resources along those lines.
CAP is the main advocacy group for LGBT+ people in the Canadian aviation industry, and they have a lot of buy-in from the airlines.
