You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Trump Admin Attempts to Legalize Anti-Trans Workplace Discrimination

HeadlineAug 20, 2019

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Friday to legalize the firing of transgender workers. The Justice Department argued that the Civil Rights Act only protects employees from discrimination based on their “biological sex.” The legal brief was introduced as part of a lawsuit in which a transgender woman was fired from a Michigan funeral home after she announced plans to transition, after six years of employment. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on this and two other cases involving anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination on October 8.

ACLU attorney Chase Strangio said, “People don’t realize that the stakes are extending not just to the trans and LGB communities, but every person who departs from sex stereotypes: Women who want to wear pants in the workplace, men who want more childbearing responsibilities. Those protections are also in peril.”

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top