British trans forced to leave the workplace in many instances

by Angelica Basile - 2016.10.21

More than 60% of British trans have experienced some form of discrimination in the workplace. From 38% of colleagues, 25% from bosses and 29% already during a job interviews. To the point that almost half of individuals who are trans in the U.K. have had to leave their job at one time or another, due to a hostile work environment. These are only some of the data that have been compiled by one of the largest temporary job agencies in England, Totaljobs. The agency interviewed thousands of trans who had undergone a sex-change. The majority of those interviewed stated that they had hidden their sexual identity for fear of having impediments to their career. In addition, 75% of the participants in the survey mentioned that there was no type of ad hoc modification of the work environment, such as “gender-neutral” bathrooms, which numbered very few among the workplaces examined.