29 Stat Can Fire You For Beg Gay. Is Your State One Of Them? - Upworthy

Contents:

• 15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY
• MOST STAT LET BOSS FIRE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY. MAJORI EVERY STATE DON'T APPROVE.
• THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• HERE’S EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S. YOU CAN STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANS
• EXPLAED: IN US TOP URT, IS LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY?
• IT'S STILL PERFECTLY LEGAL MOST STAT TO FIRE WORKERS FOR BEG GAY OR LBIAN
• IS IT LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY?
• ONE MAP SHOWS WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY 2015
• THIS MAP SHOWS THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN BE LEGALLY FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• CAN A RELIG SCHOOL FIRE A GAY TEACHER? IT'S PLITED.

15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY

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MOST STAT LET BOSS FIRE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY. MAJORI EVERY STATE DON'T APPROVE.

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.

All three workers sued, assertg that was sex discrimatn to fire them for beg gay or transgenr.

The Supreme Court agreed, holdg that “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.

THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY

In most stat, is legal for an employer to fire someone, a landlord to evict someone, and a bs owner to ny service to someone — all bee the person qutn is gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, or queer.

HERE’S EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S. YOU CAN STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANS

As a rult, more than half of LGBTQ Amerins, acrdg to the LGBTQ advocy group Movement Advancement Project, live a state where, unr state law, an employer n legally fire someone bee he's gay, a landlord n legally evict someone bee she's a lbian, and a hotel manager n legally ny service to someone who's transgenr — for no reason other than the person's sexual orientatn or genr inty. In a 2014 poll om YouGov and the Huffgton Post, 62 percent of rponnts said was already illegal unr feral law to fire someone for beg gay or lbian, 14 percent said was legal, and 25 percent weren't sure.

The same poll found most Amerins — 76 percent — said should be illegal to fire someone for beg gay or lbian, while jt 12 percent said should be legal. 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.

EXPLAED: IN US TOP URT, IS LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE 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. "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?

IT'S STILL PERFECTLY LEGAL MOST STAT TO FIRE WORKERS FOR BEG GAY OR LBIAN

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. Tim Cook me out as gay an say Bsweek on Thursday.

IS IT LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY?

And while some stat and ci have passed their own protectns, there are still 29 stat where you n actually be fired for beg gay, leavg more than half of all total workers vulnerable to employment Amerins rrectly thk that this problem has already been solved. A 2013 HuffPost/YouGov poll found that 69 percent of Amerins thk that firg people for beg gay is illegal. "If hearg that the CEO of Apple is gay n help someone stgglg to e to terms wh who he or she is, or brg fort to anyone who feels alone, or spire people to sist on their equaly, then ’s worth the tra-off wh my own privacy, " Cook wrote his say.

) Now that the Jtice Department has clarified that se prev, more clive lgs by the Equal Employment Opportuny Commissn as legally merls, stat that lack LGBT non-discrimatn protectns are left wonrg which of those two feral agenci to abi York state recently add genr inty to s non-discrimatn protectns alongsi sexual orientatn (while Florida, spe experiencg a vastatg mass shootg targetg a gay nightclub Orlando last year, notably has not).

ONE MAP SHOWS WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY 2015

The stat that actually bar discrimatn for both sexual orientatn and genr inty both the public and private sector are still the mory: 20 do so, pl the District of Electn ImpactBut spe the fact that ’s still legal for pani 28 stat to fire employe for beg gay or transgenr–and notwhstandg Tmp’s manift hostily to LGBT rights–there are signs this year that polil wds are blowg over that map a more clive directn.

THIS MAP SHOWS THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN BE LEGALLY FIRED FOR BEG GAY

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.

CAN A RELIG SCHOOL FIRE A GAY TEACHER? IT'S PLITED.

“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. 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.

He claims he was sacked for beg gay — jt months ago, he had joed Hotlanta Softball League, a gay recreatnal softball league, and his dismissal was preced by homophobic slurs om his lleagu.