Misgendered by co-workers

[Jazzy]

Hamburger chain Shake Shack has agreed to pay $20,000 to a former employee of an Oakland location who said he was misgendered by co-workers and did not receive support from management when he reported it.

The former employee was trained in San Francisco and assigned to a Shake Shack location in Oakland where the incidents took place, the California Civil Rights Department said in a news release.

He reported the discrimination to management, who "failed to take reasonable steps to correct the behavior," the department said.

The former employee was allegedly told that he would have to "explain his gender to co-workers rather than rely on management to correct discriminatory behavior."

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My thoughts on this: If you are going to go into a work place identifying as something you are not or do not look like, why wouldn't you want to educate your co-workers and request they call you whatever it is you want to be referred to as? How could management help you of they don't know either?

What are your thoughts?

 

[Lamb]

I tend to just refer to people by their names in those instances instead of their gender. If they choose a name that would reflect a different gender, then it gets tricky.