A Tale Of Two…

Like the start of the Tale of Two Cities, it is also the best of times and the worst of times, the best…

This was just posted on Facebook by the Transgender Law Center even though it is almost a year old,

Transgender Inclusion at Work Reaches Record Numbers
SHRM
March 30, 2023

As organizations around the world celebrate the accomplishments of transgender people on International Transgender Day of Visibility, the number of companies incorporating policies to protect transgender workers has surged in recent years.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation's 2022 corporate equality index (CEI), which assesses critical policies and practices indicative of employers' commitment to equality, showed that 97 percent of businesses included in the CEI have protections for nonbinary and transgender workers.

In 2002, just 5 percent of CEI companies had such policies in place for these employees.

"This year's CEI was yet another record year for companies moving toward greater inclusion for their transgender workers," said Jay Brown, the HRC's senior vice president of programs, research and training. "These are positive steps toward fuller inclusion."

The annual report, which surveyed more than 1,200 companies, also revealed:

    More than 660 major businesses have adopted gender-transition guidelines to establish best practices in transgender inclusion for managers and teams.
    About 66 percent of Fortune 500 companies have transgender-inclusive health care benefits, such as routine, chronic care and transition-related medical coverage.
    There are 22 times as many employers offering transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage as there were in 2009.

Tara Taylor, managing director of business consultation firm ADR Vantage Inc. in Washington, D.C., said employers that offer transgender-inclusive policies and practices can boost recruitment and retention.

First off, the HRC CEI I trust it only as far as I can throw it. Why? Because I know a number of trans people who were harassed, or fired, or discriminated against while working for companies with a 100% ratings.

Ways to Enhance Transgender Inclusion at Work

Johnson implored companies to be proactive rather than reactive in creating a safe workplace for transgender people. To foster an inclusive workplace for transgender employees:

•     Publicly communicate the company's transgender employee rights and job protections to the workforce.
•     Provide accessible, educational FAQs and ally education.
•     Facilitate trans-specific diversity, equity and inclusion trainings.
•     Offer employee resource groups for LGBTQ team members.
•     Consider offering a gender-transition leave policy for gender-affirming surgeries rather than having employees rely on their paid time off or short-term disability.

"While companies are being more vocal about LGBTQ acceptance and inclusion in the workplace, transgender and nonbinary people aren't always included or considered in the narrative," Johnson said. "Organizations have a lot more work to do to ensure workplace barriers are broken down and that trans and nonbinary team members feel safe and supported at work."

I know of many corporations that don’t discriminate against us, when I came out at work back in over 20 years they were very supportive, HR was actually gleeful because they had another woman engineer (I got laid off less than a year latter but it was because they were closing down the factory to move it overseas,)

As we all know all it takes is one AH to make your life miserable, no laws or company policies will stop them. What will stop them and make them crawl back into the swamps is the people. The community has to stand up and say enough is enough. They got the green light from politicians and we have to vote those politicians out of office. We have to vote for those willing to compromise across the aisle.

Enough is enough.

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Now he is bragging about it!

He blocked a bipartisan border deal and he is bragging about the hatchet job he did,

Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: ‘Please blame it on me’

The Republican front-runner slams bipartisan talks in the Senate for a deal as Biden calls for emergency authority to address surging crossings

The Washington Post

By Isaac Arnsdorf

January 28, 2024

Republican front-runner Donald Trump said he wants to be held responsible for blocking a bipartisan border security bill in the works in the Senate as President Biden seeks emergency authority to rein in a record surge of unauthorized border crossings.

Sick, sick, sick!

Trump’s opposition follows Biden’s statement on Friday praising the deal and pledging to use its new authorities to “shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed” — a striking shift as he signaled openness to asylum restrictions and other enforcement measures that were previously unacceptable to Democrats.

He doesn't want to give the credit to the Democrats and the non-MAGA Republicans... it has to be his victory! Nit it not about the border, it is not about what is good for the country but rather it is about him. it was and always will be him and not the country!