Institutional responsibility is crucial to guarantee minimum conditions in the work environment. Dignified treatment cannot depend on people having to hide or “camouflage themselves”, generating new closets in work spaces.
The first weekend of November the Pride March is celebrated in Argentina in the City of Buenos Aires. This march, which is articulated with the dozens of local marches that take place in other cities and municipalities, is a space for political demands and demands, which seeks to make visible the fight for a dignified life and the rights of the LGBTI+ community. Since 1992, it has been a key driving force for the achievement of rights such as equal marriage, the gender identity law and the transvestite-trans job quota, and a platform to denounce the discrimination and social and institutional violence faced by the group.
This claim challenges the entire society, but especially labor organizations, challenging them to reflect on the weight of the binary, cis and heterosexual canons that dominate work spaces. At Grow-gender and work, we take on this challenge, analyze and propose multiple ways to address the obstacles that persist.
Livable workplaces, an elusive dream?
The First National Survey on the living conditions of sexual and gender diversity in Argentina (2023) reveals alarming data: 38% of the trans or transvestite femininities surveyed reported having been fired or rejected from a job due to their gender identity; 33% of trans masculinities and 24.5% of non-binary people reported having been attacked or discriminated against in the workplace.
These data underline that, despite solid regulations such as the Gender Identity Law (LIG) and the decree that recognizes non-binary DNI, there is still much to do to consolidate labor inclusion. The starting point is dignified treatment, guaranteed by the LIG, which recognizes the right to respect gender identity, name and self-perceived pronouns. However, this also encompasses a broader right: to move through social and work spaces without being victims of discrimination or violence, and without the need to hide to avoid these situations.
Institutional responsibility is crucial to guarantee minimum conditions in the work environment. Dignified treatment cannot depend on people having to hide or “camouflage themselves”, creating new closets in work spaces.
The pending and the responsibilities
Without a doubtthe Transvestite-Trans and Non-Binary (TTNB) collective is the most affected in this context. The sanction of the transvestite-trans labor quota for the public sector put the need for decent employment and the responsibility of employers in this path on the social and emotional agenda of the group. However, its implementation has been halted, and the private sector is unable to articulate responses to such a big problem.
At Grow-gender and work we accompany these complex challenges, with active listening, responsibility and creativity, not only to solve problems, but to open new opportunities in working with diversity. This year we launched “Who Put This Wardrobe in My Office,” a program that comprehensively addresses the challenge of creating work environments and institutional policies that contain the life experiences of sexual diversity.
To specify some aspects, we provide technical assistance for the creation and implementation of transition and gender affirmation protocols, or truly inclusive care licenses for types of families; We carry out educational devices, situations, recreational, reflective, conversational, in order to permeate these agendas throughout the organization. We also propose holding events to raise awareness of LGBT culture and life stories. This as some of the multiple responses we articulate.
This is a call to action: Let’s celebrate diversity!
Leader of training projects and the Grow diversities program – gender and work
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