The conference was a full house. On March 26, at a cultural venue owned by the mutual insurance company MAIF in the heart of Paris, several major companies gathered to attend the launch of an employer's guide "for the inclusion of transgender and non-binary identities at work." The event was organized by the advocacy group L'Autre Cercle, an advocacy group promoting LGBTQ+ inclusion in professional environments. Addressing the audience, Coralie Bianchi, deputy director of social affairs at Société Générale, announced that the bank had also published a guide on transgender identity, available to all employees via the group's intranet. The objective: "Train to properly welcome individuals."

Are French companies resisting US President Donald Trump's anti-diversity crusade? On his first day in the White House, January 20, the Republican signed an executive order declaring policies promoting inclusion and affirmative action related to gender, age, ethnic origin, social class, sexual orientation and disability (visible or invisible) illegal in the federal government and, beyond that, in businesses. Many prominent American corporations, such as Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Ford and Meta, have already complied with the anti-"woke" directives.

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