We read with interest the article “Practical Approaches to Making Workplaces Inclusive of Transgender Workers,” in the March 18, 2020, issue of the New Jersey Law Journal (“NJLJ”). We want to be clear that this response is not an attack on the authors, who we assume had the very best of intentions in writing the article and sought to provide guidance to make workplaces welcoming and inclusive for transgender and non-binary employees. Nor are we saying that there is anything wrong about non-trans or binary people writing an article on the impact of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”) on a class of protected individuals.

However, we are four of the very few out trans and non-binary attorneys in the state of New Jersey, who are all well-known in the legal community, having written numerous articles and having participated in hundreds of seminars, panels and programs for the NJSBA, NJICLE and other groups too numerous to mention. Based on our personal and professional knowledge of the subject matter, we write to express our disappointment that neither the authors, nor the NJLJ, sought to engage with any of us, or as far as we know with any trans or non-binary attorneys, before publishing the article.