FedEx Adds Trans Employee Protections

FedEx has approved a shareholder resolution granting protection to transgender employees, raising the ire of Christianist news outlet One News Now.

Without a vote from shareholders, one of America’s largest corporations has decided to grant its transgender employees special protected status. Memphis-based FedEx has agreed to implement a shareholder resolution proposed by Huffington Post blogger Sara Whitman that would add “gender identity” to the company’s non-discrimination policy. Whitman is a self-proclaimed “married lesbian mother of three boys” in Massachusetts. The resolution was filed on Whitman’s behalf by Julie Goodridge, CEO of NorthStar Asset Management. Goodridge was the lead plaintiff in the well-known lawsuit (Goodridge v. Department of Public Health) that led to the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in Massachusetts. Earlier this year, she and her lesbian partner filed for divorce.

RELATED: FedEx only offers domestic partners benefits to its California employees, where it is required to by law. Employees hired by Kinko’s prior to the FedEx acquisition get DP benefits as well.