Prideness.

[tearsofzorro]

Over in Dublin it's Pride week, and I decided that this year I'd actually go to an event other than the march itself; so I did. I went to an event titled
Workplace Diversity - PRIDE at Work. My main thought after was, "Cripes! We have a long way to go." A lot of the people speaking covered Lesbian and Gay, very rarely touching on Bi issues (very

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[chebe]

I'll take your challenge!

Also, if it makes you feel any better (a phrase that doesn't feel in any way applicable) managers and HR are essentially trained on the job. Written policies do exist for pretty much everything (not really locally, but in a general way), but, they don't know about them. Even something as commonplace as education support, I had to find the links and send them to my manager. But, they are trained (last year the diversity education actually focused on gender issues) regularly, and if aren't sensitive will be promptly hit on the head from above.

Will let you know what I find out (un)official like tomorrow.

[chebe]

Okay. So, HR is divided by region/country, each with it's own pages relevant to local culture/law. It was very easy to find the LGBT group (all kinds of contact info and groups and lists), and they have a very clear emphasis on trans issues. But, finding actual specifics, written down. That took a little while, and now I have a 68page PDF about inclusion/transitioning in the workplace. But it is obviously written from the American point of view, and was posted in Germany. I'm thinking I might write to my local group and ask some questions

*edit* Actually, i'm not sure it counts. It appears to be a HRC publication, slightly altered with references to the company.

[tearsofzorro]

I'd actually count that as ok.

You see, having been in a trans activist group, I realise what the normal procedure is for a lot of these groups:
* Group says, "It'd be great if companies did X. They won't know how to do X, so let's draw up some guidelines."
* Group draws up guidelines that cover the minimum they want to see a company doing if it claimed to do X.
* Group campaigns companies saying, "We think it'd be great if companies did X. If you want to do X, but don't know how, we have some guidelines that cover the basics."
* Company sees the guidelines, and does a search and replace on the text, replacing "Your company here" with "Company Name".
* Group sees what company have implemented and count it as a win, because they now have a policy for X that is pretty much what they wrote (and hopefully not dropping any of the minimum requirements).

So, while it's a blatant copy/paste, it is still somewhat positive.

[chebe]

Em, still somewhat positive, but only a little. It's this document. I have emailed people who set themselves up for these kinds of questions, I'll let you know if they ever get back to me.