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a:gender - Civil Service trans support network

Home Office and a:gender

a:gender is a Civil Service-wide trans support network which was the initiative of a group of trans Civil Servants. The Home Office-based Chair was allocated time and funding in order to facilitate its development. A comprehensive document ‘The Workplace & Gender Reassignment’, compiled by the Chair, was adopted as official Home Office policy and is available across the Civil Service. Home Office HR management have worked closely with a:gender to effectively embed ‘gender identity’ within existing policies and procedures and instigate the concept of co-working to guarantee incorporation of the ‘trans perspective’.

Drawing on its pool of inter-departmental trans expertise, a:gender have worked to raise awareness and understanding through presentations and training and have also developed guidance on a variety of issues such as: gender transition related workplace absence and on securing privacy of trans personnel records.

They also won the 2006 Civil Service Diversity and Equality Award for Inspiration, recognising the "passion, personal risk, courage and inspiring way in which the network has conducted itself over the last few years in lobbying persistently for trans-rights and equality in the workplace. For the leadership of a:gender, this has meant forsaking the privacy they sought and volunteering to face potential discrimination, as they challenged entrenched prejudice and misconceptions regarding transsexual or transgender people."

page: trans :: a_gender.htm
updated: 28 Jun 07