Friday, June 23, 2006

Companies with Passing Grades for GLBT Polices

There are a number of organizations that rate companies on discrimination, on benefits and harassment policies for their GLBT employees. A good number of companies have received a 100% from these organizations because they have anti-discrimination and anti-harassment polices that include sexual orientation, gender and gender expression and they give benefits to same sex partners. And the numbers of companies are increasing all the time which is good. But I have a question; if they received a 100% does their health insurance cover Gender Identity Disorder and Gender Reassignment Surgery? The answer is NO! There is only one company that I know of that does and a few municipalities that cover GID and GRS, so how can they receive a 100% from these organizations? It seems to me that they should not get a 100% until they do and it is not like there are going to be thousands of employees saying that they want hormones and GRS. So why are these organizations not pushing for insurance coverage for trans individuals. How can these companies say that they are not discriminating when they do not cover transpeople?

1 comment:

  1. I hope this will change soon. I agree that the 100% rating is incorrect until GID and GRS are covered too.

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