Transitioning at Work SOP
Policy
'Transgender or trans is a word used to describe a wide range of people
whose gender identity or the way they express their gender is different
from the gender they were assigned at birth.
ï‚· This includes transsexual people (women or men), cross-dressing
people, androgynous or non-binary people and others.'
'We will support all transgender members of staff in the workplace and
go beyond the requirements of the Equality Act 2010, which specifically
protects people if they propose to undergo, are undergoing or have
undergone gender reassignment or have gone through part of the
process.'
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'All members of staff are entitled to use toilet and changing facilities appropriate to the sex in which they are currently living, regardless of whether they undergo gender reassignment, such as hormonal or surgical treatment or having socially transitioned by changing name, appearance, title, clothing etc'
'Once you have been told that someone is transgender you must use their new name and the pronoun that they would like to be used.'
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From the Glossary:
'Cross-dressing People (also referred to as Transvestite People) - This term
refers to people who dress, either occasionally or more regularly, in clothes
associated with the opposite gender, as defined by socially accepted norms. Cross-dressing people are generally satisfied with their birth gender and do not want to permanently alter the physical characteristics of their bodies or change their legal gender. They may dress as the opposite gender for emotional satisfaction, or just because they feel more comfortable doing so.'
Androgynous People (also sometimes called Third-gender People, Bi-gender
People and Polygender People) - This term refers to people who find they do not feel comfortable thinking of themselves as simply either men or women. Instead, they feel that their gender identity is more complicated to describe. Some may identify their gender as being some form of combination between a man and a woman, or as being neither. Like transsexual people, they can experience gender dysphoria (sometimes as intensely as transsexual people do) and may sometimes at least partially transition socially and may take hormones or occasionally undergo some surgery.
MBM article:
https://murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2024/09/30/transitioning-at-work-how-police-scotland-gave-cross-dressers-an-access-all-areas-pass/
Telegraph:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/08/police-scotland-cross-dressers-womens-spaces/
archived Telegraph article:
https://archive.ph/QtdQx#selection-2813.35-2813.98