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Diversity is reality. We're realizing that if we don't improve our skills we're asking for organizational and cultural gridlock. Creating an inclusive team environment that values diversity helps you achieve our organization’s bottom line.

Transgender is a term used to describe people whose gender identity differs from the sex marked on their birth certificate. Gender identity is a person's internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman. For transgender people, the sex they were assigned at birth and their own internal gender identity do not match.

So why do people start gossip and spread rumors? Much of it has to do with our need to make sense of what's happening around us. To understand what's going on, people talk to one-another. And, together, they fill in the holes in the story with a little bit of fact – and a lot of guesswork or subtle innuendo.

Negative bias refers to the persistent, harmful and unequal treatment of someone based solely on some characteristic they possess or their apparent membership in or identification with a particular group.

Diversity awareness and inclusion means recognizing and responding to the needs of various groups within the workforce to improve working relationships within our organization and teams. Creating an inclusive team environment that values diversity helps us achieve our organization’s goals – both cultural and financial.

Getting to know your patients, including aspects of their sexual and gender identity, behavior, and desires is key to providing quality care. It is important that you respect a person’s privacy and how much of their private life and decision to transition they want to share with others.

When you're at work, the best thing to do is refrain from using potentially offensive expressions in the workplace, even when you don’t mean to offend anyone.

Spreading false information or accusations concerning employees is often a violation of organizational policy. Employees engaged in this behavior often forget the disruptive effect on relationships in their workplace.

Transitioning to a different gender is a deeply personal decision. There are many unknowns and the added stress of how the workplace will accept the transitioning employee is very real.

Organizational diversity includes work habits and values that are affected by time zone differences, commuting patterns, virtual teams and geographic distance.