Including the Transgender Community
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INCLUDING THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY June 28, 2018 2 FLORIDA BLUE AND LGBT COMMUNITY • Respect GuideWell Community (2007) • Jacksonville Sexual Minority Youth Network (JASMYN) Board, Coming Out Breakfast, We Are Straight Allies • Added sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender • St. Pete Pride/River City Pride expression into EEO statement • Tampa Bay Business of Pride Award (2018) • Health benefits for children of domestic partners • Charlotte County Pride Festival (2009) • Jacksonville Rainbow Award (2018) • Transgender medical policy/clinical guidelines for • National LGBT Taskforce Gala (Miami) employees (2009) • Tampa Bay Lightning Pride Night • Extensive education on LGBT community throughout • Metropolitan Charities (St. Petersburg) Metro Wellness and the years Community Centers • LGB and T self –ID options on annual employee • UNF LGBT Resource Center & Building Bridges Event survey (Jacksonville) • 100% on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) • Northeast Florida Aids Network – annual Pride walk Corporate Equality Index for 10 years (2009-2018) • Equality Florida • Equality Means Business Advisory Board • Actively advocated for HRO in Jacksonville and Duval County (2015-2017) • We Filipinos – annual Pride day • Strengthen Orlando – OneOrlando Fund • Gender Transition Guidelines for the workplace (2016) • Out & Equal – Tampa Regional Council • Balance Tampa Bay annual gala support • Transgender 101 education (2017) • EMPATH Health • Gender identity and expression example included in • Men over 65 (Sage) (Tampa) annual ethics education for all employees (2017) • Florida Competes Presentation Title | Department Name | Month and Year 3 What does “LGBT” mean? There is no “correct” initialism! Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Stonewall Inn, 1969 “LGBT” Appears Many Acronym Variants Before the 1960’s there were Police raid NYC Inn. From about 1988, LGBT+, LGBTQQIAAP, no common non-derogatory Protests and activists began using LGBTQIA, GLBT, LGBTQ, words for “non-heterosexuality” demonstrations arise LGBT initials QUILTBAG, GSM, DSG… 1924 1960s1 1970s 1980s 1990s Today Society for Human Rights Illinois, 1961 Christopher Street, 1970 Minnesota, 1993 Founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago. Becomes the first Christopher Street Becomes first state to First known gay rights organization state to Liberation Day becomes the extend protections decriminalize first known gay pride parade against discrimination to homosexuality transgender people PresentationTransgender Title 101| Department | Thursday, Name June | Month28, 2018 and Year 4 WHAT DOES TRANSGENDER MEAN? • Transgender describes people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. • Gender identity is a person's internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman (or boy or girl.) • For some people, their gender identity does not fit neatly into those two choices. For transgender people, the sex they were assigned at birth and their own internal gender identity do not match. • People in the transgender community may describe themselves using one (or more) of a wide variety of terms, including (but not limited to) transgender, transsexual, and non-binary. • Always use the term used by the person. GLAAD – Transgender FAQs https://www.glaad.org/transgender/transfaq Presentation Title | Department Name | Month and Year 5 LGBT Demographics… Nationwide: • Separate studies show, on average, 3-4% of the U.S. adult population – about 9-12 million people – identify as LGBT.[1] In Florida: • Florida ranks thirteenth among the states with the highest LGBT population at 4.1%, or around 860 thousand people.[2] Florida MSA (MSA Rank) LGBT Population Jacksonville (16) 4.3% / 62,328 Miami-Ft. Lauderdale – West Palm 4.2% / 227,248 Beach (17) Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford (20) 4.1% / 100,092 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater (21) 4.1% / 121,984 [1]Gallup, http://www.gallup.com/poll/158066/special-report-adults-identify-lgbt.aspx (2012) [1]Centers for Disease Control (CDC): http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr077.pdf (2014) [2]The Williams Institute, Same-sex Couple & LGBTR Demographic Data Interactive. (May, 2016) PresentationTransgender Title 101| Department | Thursday, Name June | Month28, 2018 and Year 6 Transgender Demographics… Trans* 0.3-0.6% Between 0.3%-0.6% of adults in the U.S. identify as transgender. This number has roughly doubled when compared to studies conducted a decade ago. Gay/Lesbian Florida ranks sixth highest among states with roughly 0.66% of our 1.7% [1] population who identify as transgender. That’s about 100,300 Floridians! Bisexual 1.8% Applying these same statistics to GuideWell… Total Workforce* LGBT (3.8%) Gay & Lesbian (1.7%) Bisexual (1.8%) Trans* (0.3%) 12,346 469 209 222 37 *Total workforce includes all GuideWell entities as of 11/30/2017 [1]Flores, A.R., Herman, J.L., Gates, G.J., & Brown, T.N.T. (2016). How Many Adults Identify as Transgender in the U.S.?: The Williams Institute PresentationTransgender Title 101| Department | Thursday, Name June | Month28, 2018 and Year 7 Florida’s LGBT Non-Discrimination Laws… Florida has no statewide law protecting LGBT people from discrimination even though 75% of its residents support such an ordinance. With no statewide law, many cities & counties have passed local Human Rights Ordinances (HRO) that include both Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity & Expression. Florida has passed more of these local ordinances than any other state, now covering roughly 60% of our population. Alachua County Duval County City of Jacksonville Leon County City of Mount Dora Palm Beach County City of Atlantic Beach City of Gulfport City of Key West City of Mascotte City of North Port Pinellas County City of Lake Clarke City of Boynton Beach City of Gainesville City of Miami City of Oakland Park City of Sarasota Shores Broward County City of Greenacres City of Lake Worth City of Miami Beach Orange County City of St. Augustine City of Delray Beach Town of Haverhill City of Largo Miami Dade County City of Orlando City of Tampa City of Dunedin Hillsborough County City of Leesburg Monroe County Osceola County City of Tallahassee City of Wilton Manors City of West Palm Beach City of Wellington Village of Tequesta Volusia County City of Venice PresentationTransgender Title 101| Department | Thursday, Name June | Month28, 2018 and Year 8 THE TRANSGENDER EMPLOYMENT 13% Are unemployed. Double the national average. 13% 15% Live on $10k a year or less 15% 47% Experienced career hindering treatment such as firing or denial of a position or promotion 47% 60%* 60% Don’t have access to employer-sponsored health insurance *Compared to 38% general population 97% 97% Nearly all transgender & gender non- conforming employees experience some form of mistreatment in the workplace. [1] Presentation Title | Department Name | Month and Year 9 LGBT Terminology… Bisexual, Pansexual, Omnisexual, Asexual, Queer, Androsexual/Gynesexual/Skoliosexual… Gay / Lesbian / Straight Male / Female (Cisgender) Sexual Orientation Masculine / Butch Gender Identity LGBT+ Terminology Gender Expression Feminine / Femme Trans* Gender Non-Conforming Sex Genderqueer, Agender, Gender Fluid, Bigender, Pangender, Gender Variant, Transman (FtM), Male / Female / Intersex Cross-Dressing, Metrosexual, Transwoman (MtF)… Androgynous Sex Assigned at Birth (SAAB) PresentationTransgender Title 101| Department | Thursday, Name June | Month28, 2018 and Year 10 Terms to Avoid… • Hermaphrodite • “Not normal” / abnormal • Mal-developed / undeveloped • Sex change • Biologically male / female; Genetically male / female; Born a man / woman • Gender Identity Disorder • Drag Queen / King • Transvestite / Tranny • Pre-op / Post-op • Transgendered / Transgenders / Transgenderism • Inappropriate pronouns (She-Male/He/She/It/Shim/He-She) • ANY TERM THAT SOMEONE DOESN’T USE FOR THEMSELVES! PresentationTransgender Title 101| Department | Thursday, Name June | Month28, 2018 and Year 11 All About Pronouns… Masculine He, She, Feminine We generally use pronouns that are Him, Her, While English lacks grammatical consistent with a person’s gender gender, the modern language uses a expression. When we see masculinity His Hers gendered pronominal system. on the outside, we say “He, Him, His.” Non-Gendered They, Ze, Non-Gendered In 2015, WaPo updated its Style Guide Them, Zir, Also in 2015, The University of to include the singular “they”. Records Vermont & others made headlines show its use dates back to at least the Their Zirs when they began allowing students to 14th century. file gender-neutral pronouns as official record. PresentationTransgender Title 101| Department | Thursday, Name June | Month28, 2018 and Year “With identity terms, trust the person who is using the term and their definition of it above any dictionary.” ~ Sam Killermann, TheSafeZoneProject.com 13 BEING RESPECTFUL… • Make transgender and transitioning employees feel • Don’t make assumptions about a person’s sexuality welcome – Just like any other teammate or gender. Not everyone’s appearance or behavior • Use correct references to name or pronoun of the plays to stereotypes. person’s gender. (A non-intrusive way to find out more • Don’t provide unsolicited “advice” on grooming and about a person is to introduce yourself, state which dress. This can feel demeaning. pronouns you prefer, and ask everyone else to do the • Don’t “out” transgender colleagues or assume same. OR just respectfully ask their name and which everyone is aware of a co-worker’s transgender pronouns you should use.) status. The decision to disclose is the employee’s