Ora che il WP2 (Work Package) del progetto CERV Trascending Barriers si sta concludendo, sono disponibili alcune risorse come i report nazionali (quello dedicato alla situazione in Italia sono a cura di Laura Bugatti e Elena Togni dell’Università degli studi di Brescia), e alcuni video esplicativi riguardo la progettazione in corso.
Trascending Barriers: Promoting Trans Inclusion in the Workplace
This national report examines the employment experiences of trans and non-binary (T/NB) people in Italy and the organisational practices that shape their working conditions.
Its purpose is to contribute to the broader European project “Transcending Barriers: promoting Trans Inclusion in the Workplace” (CERV-2023-EQUAL Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values), implemented in Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Lithuania, by providing a country-specific analysis of how gender identity influences labour-market participation, workplace dynamics, and organisational cultures.
By integrating the perspectives of both T/NB workers and Human Resources professionals, the report identifies points of convergence and divergence in how inclusion, discrimination, and protection are perceived and enacted across different institutional actors. Despite increasing public attention to diversity and inclusion, the findings reveal ongoing structural vulnerabilities, limited visibility, and persistent forms of both overt and subtle discrimination for T/NB workers. Against this backdrop, the report offers evidence-based insights that can inform policy development, organisational reform, and capacity-building strategies, including training materials and mentoring programmes, at national and European levels.
In doing so the report focuses on several interconnected analytical dimensions: workplace experiences, organisational culture, and training needs, drawing on and comparing the perspectives of T/NB workers (and, more broadly, the LGBIQA+ cis community) and HR professionals as two sides of the same system. To address these dimensions, it draws on survey data from T/NB individuals and HR professionals, as well as qualitative interviews with the two target groups.
In particular, the report is organised into four main sections. Section 2 outlines the national context and the legal framework shaping the rights and working conditions of trans and non-binary people in Italy. Section 3 presents the methodological approach and participant composition. Section 4 provides the core findings, structured around experiences, organisational culture, and training needs from the standpoint of both T/NB workers (4.1.) and HR professionals (4.2.).