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"But Sophie credits the company with being a supportive employer.
"Organisations want to help with this," she says.
"They want it to go well. It's better for the organisation to have a more diverse workforce, and it's better for you to be able to live an authentic life."
The tech giant already had a toolkit in place, designed to answer common questions that staff may have - including an explanation of its bathroom policy (staff can use whichever gender bathroom they identify with) - to take the burden off people like Sophie having to explain the same things over and over again.
Sophie worked with Amazon in the US, and the firm's LGBT group Glamazon, to adapt the toolkit for the UK.
Glamazon also successfully suggested a change to the internal staff directory, and as a result all individuals can now display the pronoun to which they would like to be referred.
"That was probably the first major thing that I think brought the conversation really into people's minds," she says.
"Pronouns are something which people don't spend a lot of time thinking about but they are incredibly affirming." (continues)
Jess Bradley, 'To My Trans Sisters'
edited by Charlie Craggs (publ Oct 2017)
"The first time I changed the world was when I told my mates to call me she rather than he. I literally constructed a new world where its possible to understand myself as a genderqueer woman, despite being asigned male at birth simply by changing the language to describe myself. This is why language and pronouns are so important. Its about creating a world in which trans people are allowed to exist"
"And I can honestly say that the work that trans people do for each other means that, for me at least, the trans community is a beautiful place to be. Despite our differences, we have each others' backs"
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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3325623-Jess-Bradley-a-government-advisor-on-womens-rights-suspended-by-NUS-over-indecent-blog-Part-iii?pg=19