In a pair of cisns that give lns of LGBT people new civil rights, a divid U.S. Supreme Court led that feral law protects gay and transgenr workers om job discrimatn.
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- SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
- WORKERS N’T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR, SUPREME COURT L
- LEGAL DISCRIMATN: EMPLOYERS N FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR 15 STAT
- CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL
SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
In a landmark lg for LGBT rights, the Supreme Court said workers nnot be fired for beg gay or transgenr. * lgbt workers can be fired *
The Supreme Court said Monday that workers nnot be fired for beg gay or transgenr, a blockbter lg for LGBT historic 6-3 cisn was wrten by Jtice Neil Gorsuch, a nservative appoted by Donald Tmp. "An dividual's homosexualy or transgenr stat is not relevant to employment cisns, " Gorsuch wrote the cisn, which applied to three separate s. "That's bee is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex.
"Apple CEO Tim Cook, the first Fortune 500 chief executive to e out as gay, tweeted that he was grateful for the lg. Gorsuch wrote that discrimatg agast an employee bee they are gay or transgenr is by fn discrimatn on the basis of sex.
WORKERS N’T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR, SUPREME COURT L
A U.S. Supreme Court lg protectg gay and trans people om discrimatn at work was hailed by LGBT+ groups on Monday as the natn's most signifint moment the fight for equal rights sce same-sex marriage was legalized five years ago. * lgbt workers can be fired *
"Gregory Antollo, an attorney for Zarda, untered that "Don Zarda was a gay man who work skydivg were close ntact is required. Supreme Court lg protectg gay and trans people om discrimatn at work was hailed by LGBT+ groups on Monday as the natn’s most signifint moment the fight for equal rights sce same-sex marriage was legalized five years PHOTO: An archect of the Capol employee walks through U.
LEGAL DISCRIMATN: EMPLOYERS N FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR 15 STAT
Watershed moment for LGBT rights US as Supreme Court l workplace law protects gay and transgenr employe. * lgbt workers can be fired *
REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File PhotoIn a 6-3 cisn, the natn’s top urt cid gay and transgenr people are protected unr Tle VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans workplace discrimatn on the basis of sex, race, lor, natnal orig and relign. “No trans people and no lbian or gay people n ever be fired or discrimated agast for beg gay or transgenr - that’s the immutable law of the land now, ” said Vandy Beth Glenn, who was fired 2007 when she me out as a trans woman.
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL
A divid U.S. Supreme Court led that feral law protects gay and transgenr workers om job discrimatn a watershed cisn that giv lns of LGBT people dozens of stat civil rights they had sought for s. * lgbt workers can be fired *
Thk tank Movement Advancement Project, meang they uld be fired or harassed for beg gay or trans wh ltle legal reurse. “There are tly no words to scribe jt how elated I am, ” said Gerald Bostock, a Geia man who lost his job as a child welfare servic ordator after jog a gay softball team.
OPPOSITION TO THE RULING“We do not hate to regnize today a necsary nsequence of that legislative choice: an employer who fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr fi the law.
The Supreme Court livered a momento lg favor of LGBT rights on Monday, cidg that gay, lbian and transgenr workers are protected by feral anti-discrimatn law. * lgbt workers can be fired *
Image source, CQ-Roll Call Inc via Getty ImagThe top urt the US has led that employers who fire workers for beg gay or transgenr are breakg the untry's civil rights a 6-3 cisn, the Supreme Court said feral law, which prohibs discrimatn based on sex, should be unrstood to clu sexual orientatn and genr lg is a major w for LGBT workers and their even though the urt has bee more nservative.
"An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex, " he wrote. 'An emotnal day'Sean K Hl, Palm Sprgs, CaliforniaToday's Supreme Court lg brought me to a gay man lucky enough to live California and origally e om New York I've never had to personally worry about losg a job or not beg hired simply bee of my sexual orientatn.
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But as a fancial adviser workg wh clients all around the untry for over 30 years, I've heard untls stori of people who have lost their jobs simply for beg gay.
It's angered and sadned me for so years now, I have been speakg at semars or wh iends and fay about how this day and age 's still perfectly legal to fire someone jt bee they're gay. It's difficult to overstate the signifince of the the urt is tablishg a long history of cisns expandg gay rights, this is the first time spoke directly about the legal protectns for transgenr the lg out jt days after the Tmp admistratn announced was removg transgenr health-surance protectns only puts the issue stark relief. "The only qutn before is whether an employer who fir someone for beg homosexual or transgenr has discharged or otherwise discrimated agast that dividual 'bee of such dividual's sex', " he answer, he said, was "clear" - even if such a scenar had not been anticipated when the law was wrten.
Employment discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr workers is pervasive and harmful. It vlat re Amerin valu of fairns and equaly by discrimatg agast qualified dividuals based on characteristics unrelated to the job. * lgbt workers can be fired *
"It is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex, " he nservative jtic opposed the lg: Samuel Alo, Clarence Thomas and Brett are the s? The lg rolv three s brought by people who said they had been fired after their employers learned they were gay or transgenr.