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Contents:
- OPN ANALYSIS: FERAL EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR EMPLOYE (UPDATED)
- JUDGE GORSUCH AND GAY RIGHTS
OPN ANALYSIS: FERAL EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMATN LAW PROTECTS GAY AND TRANSGENR EMPLOYE (UPDATED)
The employer has vlated the law even if subjects all male and female homosexual and transgenr employe to the same treatment. Kavangh ld the “extraordary visn, tenacy, and gr” of the gay and lbian muny for workg “hard for many s to achieve equal treatment fact and law.
Rights lgs the urt’s history, protectg gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn and nfoundg those who thought he would be a reliable nservative on those issu. Jtice Gorsuch led a 6-to-3 majory clarg that gay and transgenr workers are protected by Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibs discrimatn based on race, relign, natnal orig and sex. “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.
JUDGE GORSUCH AND GAY RIGHTS
”His ncln: “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.
Jtice Kennedy played a pivotal role many of the biggt gay rights s of the last quarter-century and was the cidg vote and wrote the majory opn Obergefell v. Hodg, the 2015 se that tablished a nstutnal right to same-sex Jtice Kennedy retired 2018, gay rights advot said they feared that the urt was ls likely to support their e. Instead he wrote an opn that was immediately hailed by gay and transgenr rights groups as a landmark his opn, Jtice Gorsuch employed a fundamentally nservative prciple — a leral readg of the words of a statute — to reach a cisn that ntrasts sharply wh the nclns of the other nservative jtic on the a dissent, Jtice Samuel A.