Draft transition plan - is your company ready?

Dr. Jillian Todd Weiss blogs at Transgender Workplace Diversity. Her site is targeted at HR and Diversity Professionals, but I find it to be a great read for the common trans-person just looking for information, ideas and developments in this subject area. All of the posts are well worth your time reading and thinking about over a nice cup of ice coffee, but one in particular really caught my attention and it may you as well.

The post is “Issue: Draft Transition Plan” and it covers how a company might make itself prepared for an employee that decides to transition on the job. It’s part of a series Dr. Weiss is doing regarding possible issues that organizational policy on transgender employess in the workplace should address. The specific post I am referring to covers how an organisation and the transgender employee might draft a memo of understanding, in a sense, that allows for clear guidelines on what is to be expected on both sides regarding the employees transition.

You can reach this excellent post and Dr. Weiss’s suggested guidlines by clicking to her blog at this link HERE and scrolling down to the Friday May 26th, 2006 post, “Issue: Draft Transition Plan”. You may also click to the plan itself at this link HERE (05/24/07 link no longer works).
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