Pot of View: Y, many stat, people n still be fired for beg gay

Contents:

• SUPREME COURT L WORKERS N'T BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANSGENR
• CAN SOMEONE BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? THE SUPREME COURT WILL DECI
• 15 STAT WHERE IT'S LEGAL TO FIRE SOMEONE FOR BEG GAY
• THE 29 STAT WHERE YOU CAN STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• GUIDANCE UNSELOR ‘HELD HERSELF OUT AS MISTER’: FERAL APPEALS URT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR FIRG GAY EMPLOYEE
• WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY: WHAT CAN I DO?
• FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• HERE’S EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S. YOU CAN STILL GET FIRED FOR BEG GAY OR TRANS
• POT OF VIEW: Y, MANY STAT, PEOPLE N STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY

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. "Apple CEO Tim Cook, the first Fortune 500 chief executive to e out as gay, tweeted that he was grateful for the lg.

CAN SOMEONE BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY? THE SUPREME COURT WILL DECI

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. "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. 23, 2019ATLANTA — The Supreme Court has livered a remarkable seri of victori to the gay rights movement over the last two s, culmatg a lg that tablished a nstutnal right to same-sex marriage. 8, the urt will nsir whether an existg feral law, Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, guarante natnwi protectn om workplace discrimatn to gay and transgenr people, even stat that offer no protectns right will be the urt’s first se on L.

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

Kennedy, who wrote the majory opns all four of the urt’s major gay rights cisns.

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

”She add that lawyers workg to expand gay rights might have foced too narrowly on the right to marry.

“The gay rights movement beme the marriage rights movement, ” she said, “and we lost sight of the larger dynamics and stctur of homophobia. “Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins ntue to face wispread job discrimatn bee of their same-sex attractn or sex inti, ” said William N. ”The Supreme Court’s earlier gay rights lgs were ground nstutnal law.

GUIDANCE UNSELOR ‘HELD HERSELF OUT AS MISTER’: FERAL APPEALS URT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR FIRG GAY EMPLOYEE

Evans, 1996, stck down a Colorado nstutnal amendment that had banned laws protectg gay men and lbians. Texas, 2003, stck down laws makg gay sex a crime.

Lawyers for the gay and transgenr platiffs say do. Bostock, who spent a buildg a ernment program to help neglected and abed children Clayton County, Ga., jt south of Atlanta, said his story illtrated the gaps protectn for gay workers.

“Then I cid to jo a gay recreatnal softball league.

WAS FIRED FOR BEG GAY: WHAT CAN I DO?

The unty sists that Tle VII allows to fire workers for beg gay, meang that the se should be dismissed at the outset. “When I joed the gay softball league January of 2013, that’s when my life changed, ” he said.

” In particular, he said, he was cricized for recg volunteers for the program om the gay muny Bostock said he would attend the Supreme Court arguments his se, Bostock v. It was brought by a skydivg stctor, Donald Zarda, who said he was fired bee he was gay.

FIRED FOR BEG GAY

Zarda, hopg to reassure the ctomer, told her that he was “100 percent gay. His lawyers told the jtic that the se uld be cid “whout ever g the term ‘sexual orientatn’ or ‘gay. But two of them, New York and Chigo, have led that discrimatn agast gay men and lbians is a form of sex year, a divid 13-judge panel of the Uned Stat Court of Appeals for the Send Circu, New York, allowed Mr.

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Do Sexual Equaly Law Cover Gay Workers?

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

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.

POT OF VIEW: Y, MANY STAT, PEOPLE N STILL BE FIRED FOR BEG GAY

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

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.