![]() ![]() And the number of transgender people who identify themselves as having transitioned as transsexuals is a fraction of the transgender community. A recent study has shown that there are as many people in the closet at work as there are out at work. If you are in business, and believe Gates’ figures, you will sacrifice potential income, and fail to value the true diversity of your workforce. He goes with the average number of people who have identified themselves in surveys as openly gay, lesbian or bisexual, and then adds people who have transitioned as transsexuals. In his recently released study, "How many people are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender?" Gates has announced that there are only 9 million Americans who fit those descriptions. If you took his advice, not only would you sacrifice potential income, but a lot of left-handed people would go without proper scissors. Gary Gates, a demographer at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, might unwisely counsel you to go with the lower number. Would you make enough for everyone who was left-handed, or only for those people who publicly identified as left-handed? Suppose your job was to make sure that there were enough left-handed scissors to meet the demand. Note: Cross posted from Brian McNaught's Gay & Transgender Issues in the Workplace Blog
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