Transgender employees are protected by federal law. Those protections are not always well understood by employees or by the employers who are legally required to follow them. That gap in understanding is where a lot of harm happens.
Our colleagues at Bloom Fudali work with transgender employees who have experienced discrimination in many forms, from refusal to use correct pronouns to outright termination following a transition. What many clients say, early on, is that they were not sure their experience actually qualified as illegal. In most of these situations, it did.
What Federal Law Covers
The foundation of federal workplace