Why should we amend our policies for a small number of transgender people?
The fact that the transgender population is relatively small does not justify ignoring workplace discrimination against people based on gender identity. Not only is workplace discrimination wrong, but unchecked discrimination in the workplace on the basis of non-job-related characteristics distracts employees — including coworkers — from actually doing their job. Furthermore, while an employer may not be aware of having any transgender employees, it may very well have undisclosed transgender employees or employees with transgender family members.