When a gender-transitioning employee of Access Health Care Physicians LLC began showing up for work dressed as a male on certain days and a female on others, management asked in-house counsel Bradley Brown for advice. The nurse practitioner had been hired as a male, and as she went through the transition to female, the health care company had some questions about how to best to support her.
Brown said in an email to CorpCounsel.com, an affiliate of the Connecticut Law Tribune, that Access Health is a diverse and welcoming employer, and it didn’t have to go to great lengths to prepare for the employee’s transition. But the situation was still somewhat unexpected, and as in-house counsel he wanted to make sure he wasn’t overlooking any potential legal issues.
