Can you be fired for beg gay? Answer pends largely on where you live

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• SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
• CAN YOU BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? HOW TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT
• CAN YOU BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? ANSWER PENDS LARGELY ON WHERE YOU LIVE
• DPE SUPREME COURT LG, YOU N STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY, TRANSGENR | WEBB

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. The s were brought by three workers who said they were fired om their jobs bee they were gay or transgenr.

" Bostock was fired om his job as a child welfare servic ordator 2013 after jog a gay softball league.

CAN YOU BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? HOW TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT

"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. "We no longer live a society where a Gay uple n be married on Friday and fired for that marriage on Monday.

CAN YOU BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? ANSWER PENDS LARGELY ON WHERE YOU LIVE

"Gregory Antollo, an attorney for Zarda, untered that "Don Zarda was a gay man who work skydivg were close ntact is required. "I thk the first rponse is the bt, bee reveals discrimatn – that Don Zarda said he was gay. A San Anton state senator says Texans n be nied a job or fired simply for beg gay.

Supportg the measur, which the Cy Council is expected to nsir Augt, the Democrat said of a fellow San Anton rint, an Iraq veteran: "Here his home state and his home cy, he n be nied or fired om a job jt bee he is gay.

But that don’t necsarily mean that " 29 stat this untry you n still get fired for … beg gay, " as Marta Navratilova claimed a May 2013 terview. Gay rights still have a long way to go. Y, gay marriag are legal many stat, but there are some areas which the gay muny is a hard “nope.

DPE SUPREME COURT LG, YOU N STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY, TRANSGENR | WEBB

” And while there is a movement where the gay muny is beg slowly but surely accepted, not everyone shar the beliefs. This means that Arkansas and Tennsee, you n actually be fired for beg gay, and you nnot really brg that plat to urt. Some stat such as Kansas, Texas, Geia, or Florida do not have specific verage for gay discrimatn, but still, protect agast general discrimatn.

In other stat, while some s of discrimatn are helped, the gay muny is still phed unrneath a veil. For stance, Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill sparked uproar the LGBT muny of the state, unr the claims that their rights and voic were opprsed. If the state law protects you and you n brg proof of gay discrimatn, you n do somethg about your se.

In some stat, you n’t get fired for beg gay – but others, there is nothg stoppg your boss om dog so. While the Virgia school’s polici sparked cricism, they also highlighted the plited patchwork of employment protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr workers across the untry. Last Febary, the 2nd Circu Court of Appeals joed the 7th Circu affirmg lbian, gay and bisexual workers’ rights Zarda v.