Resources for Employees
GENERAL RESOURCES
• Community Health Apprenticeship Program at Chicago House
• Resume & Cover Letter templates from Chicago House
• Silver Fork at Center on Halsted
• TransWorks at Chicago House
• Illinois Department of Human Rights
• National Center for Transgender Equality
• TransTech Social Enterprises
• Upswing Advocates
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
MORE ORGANIZATIONS
• Black Trans Advocacy
• Brave Space Alliance
• Center on Halsted
• Chicago Gender Society
• Equality Illinois
• GLAAD
• Human Rights Campaign
• National Center for Transgender Equality
• PFLAG
• Trans Latin@ Coalition
• Trans Women of Color Collective
• Transgender American Veterans Association
Research
2015 U.S. Transgender Survey Report (USTS)
The USTS is the largest survey examining the experiences of transgender people in the United States, with 27,715 respondents from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. military bases overseas.
How To Be Truly Inclusive of Non-Binary Genders at Work via BBC
Growing recognition of non-binary genders may require a change in the way we understand identity and the words we use, especially in the workplace. A survey published by online magazine Beyond the Binary in March 2017 shows only 1% of the 225 non-binary people polled felt “completely protected” by current legislation at work and 42% had suffered a negative experience related to their gender identity in the workplace.
Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey
This study brings to light what is both patently obvious and far too often dismissed from the human rights agenda. Transgender and gender non-conforming people face injustice at every turn: in childhood homes, in school systems that promise to shelter and educate, in harsh and exclusionary workplaces, at the grocery store, the hotel front desk, in doctors’ offices and emergency rooms, before judges and at the hands of landlords, police officers, health care workers and other service providers