There are many reason that Americans should consider awareness about Diversity acceptance especially with the transgender population as it is the upcoming phenomenon that the world needs to acknowledge. Although, Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013, ENDA – (Sec. 4), Prohibits covered entities (employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, or joint labor-management committees) from engaging in employment discrimination on the basis of an individual ‘s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. The effects with integrating transgender equality in the workplace are a challenge as there are state laws that do not accommodate those individuals that are transgender. States such as North Carolina and Mississippi are presenting a hate towards transgender, today.
As prejudice has decrease for the gay population or less conversation in many work settings, there are those biases towards the transgender which creates workplace discrimination and related health disparities (Mahner, Bower & Fitzpatrick, 2014). A reason transgender refuse to disclose their identity in the workplace because of fear of harassment, discrimination and losing their jobs (Baillie & Gedro, 2009; Jones, 2013). Therefore, McNickles (2009) suggest human resources familiarize with transgender basics, gender identity law, policy issues and tools, and sample gender transition guidelines. Transgender already battle within themselves as they are born in the wrong body (Trotter, 2010). The difficult part is when they’re transitioning to their gender identity. Many people show insensitivity towards transgender’s transition and usually do not respect their privacy as others asks questions regarding their surgeries and hormonal treatments (S.
.nown discrimination towards the transgender community that needs to change for equality. Change could happen by the people: “The employer, and in particular senior management, can have a significant impact on how transgender employees are treated in the workplace. Having a solid anti- discrimination policy in place and reinforcing the policy with regular harassment prevention training will help keep an employer’s expectations clear and may help employers avoid discrimination claims”. (Farrell, 2016) Although, there are some organizations that have or have implemented multi-culture training, diversity training, work place violence prevention or a zero tolerance in their policies and procedures, many transgender employees are still faced with discrimination which gives them fear as there in an unsafe working environment, (Baillie & Gedro, 2009; Jones 2103)
