Kenvue Inc. is an American consumer health company. Formerly the Consumer Healthcare division of Johnson & Johnson,[3] Kenvue owns well-known brands such as Aveeno,[4] Band-Aid,[5] Benadryl, Combantrin, Zyrtec,[6] Johnson's,[7] Listerine, Lactaid,[8] Mylanta, Neutrogena,[4] Trosyd, Calpol, Tylenol,[8] and Visine. Kenvue is incorporated in Delaware[1] and was originally headquartered in the Skillman section of Montgomery Township, New Jersey, before relocating to Summit, New Jersey.[9]
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“Johnson & Johnson helped me transition": Meet an employee who’s now living his true self.
For International Transgender Day of Visibility, Clark Musto shares his inspiring story—one made possible, in part, due to the support he received at work.
Written by Darren Frei
May 31, 2018
“There are organizations that say they care about their workers,” says Clark Musto, “but Johnson & Johnson didn’t just say it. They proved it.”
For a workplace to be truly diverse and inclusive, it should not only attract talent from many different backgrounds, but also work to retain that talent and help make them feel they belong.
According to Musto, who transitioned from female to male, Johnson & Johnson not only talks the talk but walks the walk when it comes to supporting its transgender employees.
For Musto, who works for Janssen Pharmaceuticals, part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, that meant not only being protected by a harassment-free workplace policy, but also benefiting from a documented company process for helping employees transition that encompasses support from mentors across the company.
For International Transgender Day of Visibility, we sat down with Musto to hear more about his brave story of deciding to come out as transgender.
‘You have the backing of the entire company’
At my last job, I was co-lead of the LGBTQ group. The company was quite progressive, but their insurance policy followed a common gatekeeping policy: If you want to move forward with gender-affirming surgery—for me, it was getting my breasts removed, known as top surgery—you needed to undergo at least one year or more of hormone replacement therapy first for the procedure to be covered by insurance.
This tends to deter people from going through with the surgery. Gender is a spectrum and identities include more than just being male or female, so there are many people in the community who do not identify in the gender binary, and who do not feel that hormone therapy is right for them.
The requirement certainly deterred me. I wasn’t ready for hormone replacement therapy, but I also couldn’t see myself living with that part of my body anymore.
Then, in February 2017, I was introduced to Johnson & Johnson through an LGBT-specific recruiting event called Lesbians Who Tech. I talked to an openly gay gentleman from the company’s HR team who told me about all of the company’s great LGBTQIA+ benefits—including fertility, adoption and surrogacy assistance for same-sex couples and transition policies—and encouraged me to apply if I found a position I felt qualified for.
Sure enough, I applied for a clinical research manager position, and got the job!
When I called my new health insurance company as a Johnson & Johnson employee, they told me that being on hormones for a year before surgery wasn’t a requirement—which meant that I could have hormone treatment and top surgery at the same time, so I could get everything done at once. I hung up the phone and thought: Wow, this can actually happen for me!
https://www.jnj.com/our-company/how-johnson-johnson-helped-one-transgender-employee-with-his-transition