Creating an LGBTQ Inclusive Workplace to Meet CLAS Standards

This training is designed to increase recognition of gender and sexual orientation bias and foster inclusive practices to promote a safe, equitable, and supportive work environment for people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming. Participants will identify the promoters and inhibitors of LGBTQ+ equity and inclusion in the workplace.

Topics include:

• Community Agreements for respectful engagement
• Appropriate language for discussing gender and sexual orientation
• Data on homophobia and transphobia
• LGBTQ discrimination in employment
• Pitfalls to avoid when advancing LGBTQ inclusion
• LGBTQ-inclusive policies and practices
• Creating a workplace transition plan
• Cisgender & heterosexual privilege
• Responding to microaggressions
• Supporting those who have been targeted
• Calling-in Template to address those who have caused harm
• Unlearning anti-LGBTQ+ bias
• Allyship and partnership