New rules require that federal agencies submit their plans for supporting gender transition in the workplace. Fox News reports that the top human resources office within the Biden Administration has explained to all federal agencies that they must have policies for how workers in those agencies can change their gender if they wish to do so, with privacy matters kept at the forefront as well.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released guidance on “gender identity and inclusion in the federal workplace”. This guidance has not changed since it was first put in place in 2017 at the very tail end of the Obama Administration. The updated guidance comes on International Transgender Day of Visibility.
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The old guidance told federal agencies to treat gender identity and possible transitions with “sensitivity and confidentiality”. The new guidance goes further by saying that those in the agencies must support people within the organization who are potentially seeking to change their gender identity. This goes a step further than it used to. Instead of simply being encouraged to protect the confidentiality of the individuals who might want to change their gender identity, agencies are now told that they must support the moves made by those seeking to change their gender identity.
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The OPM says that agency policies should explain the “type of support a transitioning employee can expect from supervisors, managers, human resources personnel, and agency employee support services”.
The OPM said: “The procedure would include, with the transitioning employee’s input and consent, when and which colleagues to notify of a transition; the timing for name changes and pronoun changes, where applicable and consistent with this Guidance, in email, IT systems, and employee profiles; and a process for any gender identity inclusion training for supervisors, managers, and coworkers if such training would be beneficial,”
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The new guidance says that federal agencies must make gender transition policies available to all workers and that those workers who wish to change their gender identity must be permitted to use sick time. This must be treated as any other medical treatment that one might need to undergo while working for the federal agency they happen to work for.
The guidance also states that those in the agency must try to protect the privacy of individuals changing their gender identity when possible.
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