In a news update from the West End, the National Westminster Bank, commonly known as “NatWest,” is now allowing its employees to identify as men or women on different days as part of a series of LGBTQ-friendly diversity measures.
The bank offered double-sided lanyards to staff who identify as non-binary, meaning neither female nor male. The measure allows staff to adopt “masculine and feminine” personas on different days, sometimes, throughout the day.
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According to the guidance on NatWest’s website: “We aim to continue to deliver a better LGBT+ colleagues and customers face and engage with them regularly to demonstrate that NatWest Group is a welcoming place, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Reports last year said NatWest would fund private non-surgical hormone treatment for its transgender members of staff in efforts to “bank a more inclusive employer.”
Within the same guidance, NatWest also “introduced the option for our transgender customers to use the ‘Mx’ prefix” as an alternative to Mr., Mrs. and Miss.
“We work hard to understand the issues that all of our colleagues and customers face, and we engage with them on a regular basis,” A NatWest Group spokesman said.
Last year, 36,000 employees took part in a Choose to Challenge electronic learning program eager to “learn how to confront non-inclusive behaviors,” to which they receive an email with “suggested learning” tactics each month as a part of its internal Inclusion Champions Program.
To add some insight to the new rules from NatWest, we at Valuetainment stay one step ahead. Watch comedian Vincent Oshana instill these new “diversity and inclusion” guidelines in the video, below.
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