When should you bring in a trans inclusion expert?
Gender identity and expression are protected under human-rights legislation across Canada. But knowing that is only the starting point.
The harder questions are often practical:
What should a manager do when an employee comes out or transitions?
Are our policies and practices meeting our human-rights responsibilities?
When is someone's legal name actually required and where should someone’s chosen name be used?
How should we respond to concerns about washrooms or changerooms?
Are our hiring practices, forms or systems creating barriers?
What do we do when employees strongly disagree about trans inclusion?
How do we implement decisions consistently across an organization?
Your HR, legal, and operational teams already bring considerable expertise. TransFocus complements that expertise when a gender-related situation requires specialized knowledge.
We help translate human-rights requirements and organizational commitments into workable policies, practices, communications, and everyday decisions.
And we help organizations identify problems they may not otherwise see. Trans and non-binary employees don't always report the barriers they experience—and they shouldn't have to become your organization's trans-inclusion experts in order for those barriers to be addressed. We use surveys, interviews, focus groups, site visits, and other forms of research to understand what's actually happening and identify practical opportunities for improvement.
You don't need to wait for a complaint or crisis to find out whether your organization is ready.
Talk through a challenge with us during a 30-minute free consult:
