as for gender identity companies are increasingly putting in place polies to govern how their organization treats employees who change genders (often called transgender emplpyees) in 2001 only eight companies in the fortune 500 had policies on gender identity by 2006 that number had swelled to 124 ibm is one of them brad salavich a diversity manager for ibm says "we believe that having strong transgender and gender identification policies is a natural extension of ibm's corporate culture" dealing with transgenderempolyees requires some special considerations such as for bathrooms employee names and so on58