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Human Rights Campaign Praises New Federal Guidance on Protecting Transgender Federal Workers


Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, praised the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for publishing guidance regarding transgender federal employees. Pursuant to a June 2009 presidential memorandum regarding federal employees, OPM added gender identity to the categories protected under the equal employment opportunity policy for Executive Branch positions. The guidance published today, available at http://www.opm.gov/diversity/Transgender/Guidance.asp, provides further information to federal managers and human resources officials to ensure that transgender employees are treated fairly and equally in their public service to our nation.

"It is an essential American value that workers be judged on the merits, not personal characteristics like sexual orientation and gender identity that have no bearing on how well you can do the job," said HRC President Joe Solmonese. "Today’s guidance will help to ensure that all federal workers — whether fighting fires in our national forests, prosecuting federal crimes in court, conducting groundbreaking cancer research or making sure this week’s paycheck gets to your mailbox — will be treated with the fairness and dignity they deserve. We thank President Obama and OPM Director John Berry for their leadership in providing a federal workforce that welcomes all who would enter public service, including LGBT people."

As part of its Blueprint for Positive Change, a series of policy recommendations to improve the lives of LGBT Americans and their families, HRC urged the Obama administration to extend protections to transgender federal workers. 

The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.


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