Know Your Rights: Transgender People at Work
Check out our information and resource publication for transgender employees in California and know your rights as a transgender employee!
Model Employer Policy
Help your company become trans-inclusive
This model policy and guide will clarify the law and help your company welcome and include transgender, gender non-conforming, and transitioning employees. Included is a sample policy that your company can use as the basis for creating your own inclusive policy to ensure transgender, gender non-conforming, and transitioning employees feel safe and welcome in your workplace.
Tips for Working with Transgender Coworkers
Our brochure is a great resource for coworkers to begin thinking about how to best make your workspace safe and welcoming for all coworkers. The following tips can help you towards ensuring your workplace is free of discrimination and harassment.
Tips for Lawyers Working with Transgender Clients and Coworkers
Our brochure is a great resource for lawyers to begin thinking about how to best provide services for clients and ensure your workplace is free of discrimination and harassment. We recommend lawyers contact us for trainings and more resources.
We also invite you to join our Cooperating Attorney Network!
EEOC’s Decision in Macy v. Holder Ruling F.A.Q.
What the EEOC’s Decision in Macy v. Holder Means for You
On April 20, 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a landmark decision holding for the first time that discrimination against transgender employees is covered by the federal sex discrimination law, Title VII. This ruling was issued in the case of Macy v. Holder, brought to the EEOC by Transgender Law Center on behalf of our client Mia Macy.
Transgender Employees and Tenants in California: Rights and Responsibilities
Rights and Responsibilities as Clarified by the Gender Nondiscrimination Act of 2003 (AB 196). A joint publication of National Center for Lesbian Rights and Transgender Law Center.
In 2002, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing began to accept claims of discrimination based on gender identity as discrimination based on sex. In doing so, the agency made it possible for transgender people to seek administrative remedy to discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodation without having to first prove that they were covered by state law. In order to alleviate the confusion and head off any protracted court fights about the state of California law, we worked together to clarify FEHA in this guide.
Good Jobs Now: A Snapshot of the Economic Health of San Francisco’s Transgender Communities
A Snapshot of the Economic Health of San Francisco’s Transgender Communities
With planning support from the Women’s Foundation of California, Good Jobs NOW! provides a simple snapshot of the economic reality experienced by transgender survey respondents. From February 5th through March 12th, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Transgender Law Center surveyed 194 self-
identified transgender people living, working, or looking for work in San Francisco. The outcomes are stark.
File a complaint with the EEOC (Full Guide »)
- File a complaint under CA state law – Dept. of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)
- File a complaint under federal law (non federal employees) – Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- File a complaint under federal law (for federal employees)- contact your agency EEO office
- File a complaint because you have received incorrect wages in California – Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement
- File a complaint against a San Francisco employer – San Francisco Human Rights Commission LGBT division
Presentando una queja ante la EEOC por discriminación en el empleo
En 2015, la EEOC emitió una decisión en Lusardi v. McHugh, sosteniendo que algunas de las formas mas comunes de hostigamiento que enfrentan los empleados transgénero – que les digan que no pueden usar el mismo baño que los demás, o intencionalmente refiriéndose a ellas con el nombre o pronombre equivocado – constituyen una discriminación ilegal bajo Título VII. Este guia le ayudara a entender los pasos que debe tomar para presentar una queja ante la EEOC por discriminación en el empleo.
Resources for finding a job in San Francisco and Los Angeles:
- San Francisco: Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative (TEEI)
- Los Angeles: Transgender Economic Empowerment Project (TEEP)
Model Employer Policy
Help your company become trans-inclusive
This model policy and guide will clarify the law and help your company welcome and include transgender, gender non-conforming, and transitioning employees. Included is a sample policy that your company can use as the basis for creating your own inclusive policy to ensure transgender, gender non-conforming, and transitioning employees feel safe and welcome in your workplace.
Find Resources By Issue Area:
- Leaked DOD Memo Outlines Plan to Ban Employment of Transgender Service Members March 13, 2019
- In “vicious” memo, DOJ encourages illegal discrimination against transgender workers October 5, 2017
- DC Office of Human Rights report: anti-trans employment discrimination widespread November 9, 2015
- NY to Become 20th State to Explicitly Protect Transgender People from Harassment and Discrimination October 22, 2015