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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.
JUDGE GORSUCH AND GAY RIGHTS
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.