Implications for employers

This page outlines the five key areas that employers need to consider to support transexual/transgendered staff.

These cover

• Recruitment, retention and return
• Confidentiality and data
• Staff training
• Health related issues
• Use of single sex facilities
• Dress code

Employers may also need to consider the following areas:

• Ensuring the organisation's policies and procedures are inclusive of this issue
• Timescales of any medical or surgical procedures
• The individual's medical needs in the workplace
• Planning and agreeing the point of changing name, personal details or gender
• Whether the employee wishes to inform colleagues him/herself of if they would prefer others to do this