Former employees say bosses at National Center for Transgender Equality fostered a culture of racism
amidst complaints of resistance to the staff union’s demands and unaddressed issues of racial equity.staffer put it to Jezebel, “This has been a long time coming.”
former staffers say, led Neal to develop fibromyalgia. According to sources, when they requested disability accommodations as well as leave through the Family Medical and Leave Act, NCTE’s leadership was slow to address their needs and asked for additional documentation to prove they needed support, a process that Keisling defended as standard practice.
said. Keisling, in an interview with Jezebel, pointed to steps the organization’s leadership had taken to address the staffer’s concerns, noting that during the last year, NCTE had instituted a better comp time policy and that staff averaged about a 43-hour workweek. Keisling also cited the implementation of a racial justice plan that included trainings for all staff, a revamped interview process, as well as racial justice coaches for Keisling and Mottet, both of whom are white.
We really felt like their response was insufficient, so insufficient as to be insulting,” one staffer said. Keisling and Mottet, they now felt, had to go.sent to Keisling and Mottet in September, 10 staffers—most of whom have since left NCTE—requested that the two resign within 18 months.
“All of a sudden, they told us to clear our schedules for a Friday afternoon, November 1, and that’s when they laid out their plan,” they said. “It was shocking how insufficient their plan was.” They characterized the tenor of the meeting as,Keisling described the buyouts as a way to move NCTE forward with staff that would, as she put it, “embrace” the necessary changes.
It’s not only the latest group of former staffers that is critical of the organization’s leadership. “The staff departure of the past week was after repeated internal and external trainings, and stated commitments from leadership to do better...and then not following through,”until the beginning of 2019.
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