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Val Boston III of Boston and Associates, one of my experienced consulting mentors forwarded me an announcement : Dr. In fact, while I was in the middle of writing this blog, Mr. (NOTE: As a University of Chicago graduate I was delighted and proud as am alumnus to see the Jan-Feb Alumni Magazine include an alumni essay called “On Common Ground” written by transwoman Christina Kahrl AB’90 about her finding acceptance as a transgender women as a baseball writer and television analyst.)
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With a large majority of Fortune 500 companies now providing full inclusion for gay men, lesbian and bisexual people covered under “sexual orientation,” they are now addressing the transgender area (gender identity and expression) that may have not been fully addressed earlier.Transgender woman Laverne Cox made history by being the first transgender person on the cover of Time Magazine (May, 2014) Cox was the first transgender person to be featured on cover of a Time Magazine issue last year with the title “The Transgender Tipping Point – America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier.” Transgender characters are featured as mainstream in a more positive light such as Laverne Cox (link to Time Magazine Interview) in “Orange is the New Black.” In fact Ms.(LATE EDIT: Link to this cool Vanity Fair magazine cover featuring Caitlyn Jenner!) High profile celebrity transitions ( Chas Bono a few years ago and more recently Bruce (now Caitlyn) Jenner) have made transgender people much more visible.
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I believe there are several reasons for this increased focus:
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Over the past 12 months as I delivered LGBT workshops and trainings across the country, mostly in a human resources professional setting, about 80% of the questions during the “Question and Answer” time are about transgender issues. Why? This seems to be a watershed time with a significant increase of focus on the transgender segment of our community. In my annual LGBT Pride Month blog this year I want to focus on the “T” (or transgender) in LGBT.
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Led by a set of brave drag queens, patrons of the Stonewall Tavern boldly stood up to police harassment. Traditionally, June is LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Pride Month commemorating the “Stonewall Rebellion” in Greenwich Village, New York in late June 1969. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City, Universally considered the beginning of the modern Gay Rights Movement in the US