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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

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.

WORKERS N’T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR, SUPREME COURT L

"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. "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. 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.

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.

LEGAL DISCRIMATN: EMPLOYERS N FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR 15 STAT

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. 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.

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.

CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR WORKERS, SUPREME COURT RUL

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. "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.

Media ptn, A taxi service tryg to keep trans people safeDonald Zarda, a skydivg stctor om New York who died a skydivg accint 2014, had filed one of the other was dismissed after jokg wh a female client wh whom he was tanm-divg not to worry about the close physil ntact bee he was "100% gay". The pany mataed he was fired bee he shared personal rmatn wh a client, not bee he was gay, but a urt New York led Mr Zarda's Bostock, a former child welfare servic -ordator om Geia, lost his job after jog a gay recreatnal softball league, thereby publicly revealg his sexual orientatn.

Mr Bostock lost his discrimatn se a feral urt key moments US LGBT history Jan 1958 - US Supreme Court l for first time favour of LGBT rights, sayg an LGBT magaze, emed obscene by the FBI and postal service, had First Amendment rightsJuly 1961 - Illois be first state to crimalise homosexualyJune 1969 - Protts beg after police raid Stonewall Inn New York Cy, now seen as start of gay rights movementSept 1996 - Print Clton f marriage as unn between "one man and one woman"June 2003 - US Supreme Court term sodomy laws to be unnstutnalOct 2009 - Democratic Print Obama signs Matthew Shepard and Jam Byrd Jr Hate Crim Law, expandg hate crime laws to clu sexual orientatnJune 2015 - US Supreme Court l 5-4 that same-sex marriage is legal across the untryJune 2016 - The Pentagon lifts s ban on transgenr Amerins serve the aryMarch 2018 - Republin Print Tmp issu a policy banng transgenr Amerins om servg aryMore on this story. The Supreme Court on Monday led 6-3 a landmark cisn that gay and transgenr employe are protected by civil rights laws agast employer discrimatn. A set of s that me before the urt had asked the jtic to ci whether Tle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimatn on the basis of “sex, ” appli to gay and transgenr people.

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. Zarda was fired 2010 om the New York skydivg pany where he worked as an stctor after he told a ctomer that he was gay. In the third se, Gerald Bostock, a social worker Geia, was fired by Clayton County after he joed a gay recreatnal softball league.

The Tmp admistratn had weighed on the s, argug on behalf of a group of employers who had been brought to urt for firg their gay or transgenr employe. Last week, the admistratn siarly falized a Department of Health and Human Servic le that exclus gay and transgenr people om discrimatn protectns unr the Affordable Care Act. Alo argued that is unlikely that lawmakers 1964 would have sought to protect gay or transgenr people om discrimatn.

But Gorsuch dismissed his fellow nservativ’ objectns, argug that “applyg protective laws to groups that were polilly unpopular at the time of the law’s passage — whether prisoners the 1990s or homosexual and transgenr employe the 1960s — often may be seen as unexpected.

Even wh this week’s Supreme Court lg, the workplace will be far om equal for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr the natn’s hight urt says you n’t be fired for your sexual orientatn or genr inty unr the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there are still gaps.

Treatments for HIV, which the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn says disproportnately affects gay and bisexual men, are sometim shortchanged by surance plans. But among those that have accs to fay leave, the polici often favor birth mothers, said Gabriel Dobson, 34, a gay man who is married to another left his last job bee he felt his employer was not promotg him bee he is black and gay. 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.

The HRC report also found that 53% of LGBTQ workers have heard jok about gay or lbian people at least once a while at work. While preparg for a jump, Don told a female ctomer that he was gay an effort to make her more fortable wh how close they were physilly. The third se was brought by Gerald Bostock, who was fired om his job as a social worker for at-risk youth after his employer learned he was gay.