NatWest allows employees to identify themselves as male and female on different days

Over the past year, NatWest has introduced a number of measures to become more inclusive. Credit: John Birdsall/Alamy Stock Photo

NatWest is allowing employees to go to work identifying as male and female on separate days as part of a series of LGBT-friendly measures.

Bank offered reversible lanyards to employees who identify themselves as non-binary – neither male or female.

This measure allows them to take on «male and female» personas and means they have the ability to alternate between these separate identities at different times.

Furthermore, workers were able to map their preferred pronouns and the phonetic spelling of their names to ecologically safe bamboo badges.

The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion [DE&I] Guidelines on the NatWest website stated: feminine expression.

Mx alternative to Mr, Mrs and Miss

Elsewhere in the same guide, NatWest stated that it has “given our transgender clients the option to use the 'Mx' prefix as an alternative to Mr, Mrs and Miss. .

The organization has also «removed the need for existing customers to tell us their gender» when they register to create their account.

Since December 2021, NatWest has had a One Bank DE&I committee that says in its annual Equality Report that it «brings together senior executives to consistently deliver DE&I events across the bank.»

Last year, about 36,000 employees took part in the Choose to Challenge e-learning program to “learn how to resist non-inclusive behavior” and are emailed “training offers” each month as part of the internal Inclusion Champions program.< /p>

NatWest is among the majority major banks participating in Stonewall's diversity schemes.

HSBC, which allows customers to register as gender-neutral, is currently the top-ranking bank in the charity's controversial annual Equality Index.

The latest inclusivity initiative

Last year, NatWest confirmed that it will pay their transgender employees for privately funded hormone treatments.

Medical services for transgender people became part of his proposal in September last year, and the sick leave rules were changed to allow leave for people who are medically reassigned.

He conducted a separate review of employment policy language to “provide language and scripts — LGBT+ inclusive.»

The bank also owns Coutts, which is currently at the center of a free speech dispute involving Nigel Farage following reports of his account being closed.

A NatWest Group spokesman said: » Our priority is to ensure that the NatWest Group is a welcoming place for all of our colleagues and clients, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

«We work hard to understand the issues that all of our colleagues and clients face, and we interact with them regularly.»

The Telegraph understands that NatWest has introduced passes to last year for non-binary colleagues, and the source said it should allow colleagues to represent male and female facial expressions.