Trans Eye for the Cis Ally: Ensuring an Inclusive Community
summary
Concrete steps and real tradeoffs: require names plus pronouns on profiles and badges, hand out pronoun stickers, train managers to ask trans hires how they want misgendering handled, audit benefits for trans-inclusive coverage, convert or signpost single-stall gender-neutral restrooms, allow flexible remote days for dysphoria, prepare to witness or record TSA incidents, avoid asking invasive medical questions and ask before outing by searching old names — practical fixes that reduce real barriers.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:46queen STRAIGHT GUY
- 3:44THE BASICS OF THE BASICS
- 3:59WHAT IS TRANS?
- 4:40ADJECTIVES!
- 4:52WHAT IS NONBINARY?
- 8:04PRONOUNS! AGAIN!
- 8:34BE PROACTIVE!!
- 9:10PRONOUNS AT EVENTS
- 9:56PRONOUNS IN INTERVIEWS
- 10:20MISGENDERING AT WORK: WHAT TO DO?
- 11:07DON'T ASSUME: ASK!
- 11:44BUT SOMETIMES: DON'T ASK!!!
- 12:50HEALTH INSURANCE: FIND OUT NOW
- 15:05BATHROOMS: WHAT YOU CAN DO
- 15:15SINGLE STALL GENDER NEUTRAL RESTROOMS!
- 16:28COMPANY EVENTS: DO A LITTLE RECON
- 16:48FRIENDS MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER
- 17:58NOT EVERYONE WANTS OR NEEDS THIS!
- 18:37AIRPORTS!
- 22:29WORKING REMOTE HELPS MANAGE DYSPHORIA
- 24:05WHEN THE NEWS MAKES YOU STRUGGS TO FUNC
- 26:11WOMEN'S EVENTS AND INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE
- 30:08SO WHAT SHOULD YOU CALL IT
- 32:18MISCELLANEOUS TIPI
- 34:19COME FIND ME!!!
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