There comes a point when you take a look at your life and decide that the way things are just not working, whether it is your relationship, your job or as in my case, how I was expressing my gender identity. For many years I had realised that the gender I was living and functioning as didn’t match how if felt inside and who I was. I can't rationalise that, I can't explain it in any logical way, it was just how I was feeling. Something that has grown inside me for as long as I can remember back into my early years.
Your company is one that produces products for the mass markets, consumer products that you naturally expect that everyone can use and can benefit from, am I right? You engage with your own product design teams, probably carry out market research to make sure that every aspect has been considered from all angles?