In 2023, 80 anti-trans bills have already passed out of the 566 proposed across the country, according to the Trans Legislation Tracker. And while there’s little employers can do to change what’s happening nationally, there’s still a lot they can be doing to better support the trans folks within their own ranks.
There are more than two million transgender people in the United States and 1.2 million people who identify as nonbinary, according to a 2021 report from management consulting company McKinsey. Yet transgender adults are twice as likely to be unemployed; for those who do work, more than half say they are not comfortable being out at work.
