This week I am going to focus on the issues that we all face with acceptance in the workplace - Being accepted as a trans or non binary person, accepting people who are gender variant and the impact of the equality Act 2010. Today I am going to focus on Bias and Prejudice and how that shows up. I was talking to a trans friend recently who was shocked to discover that people they thought were comfortable with them, were actually harboring huge levels of prejudice. Knowing that they were now able to see in their interactions and engagement with that person evidence of hidden prejudice and unconscious bias.

We cannot hide how we feel, so today I am going to look at how we can recognise and manage our own biases and work towards overcoming them and what we can all do to make a workplace more inclusive of gender variant people.