I have felt imprisoned in a body that does not match my mind, and this has caused me great despair and loneliness. I have a gender identity disorder that I have struggled with my entire life. I am writing this both to inform you of a significant change in my life and to ask for your patience, understanding, and support, which I would treasure greatly. What I must tell you is very difficult for me and is taking all the courage I can muster. I have known many of you for some time now, and I count you all as my friends. michael barbaroĪimee, I wonder if you could read from the letter that you handed your boss. I’m 58 years old, and I live in Redford, Mich. Davis Lin and Lisa Chow A surprise majority of judges ruled that the Civil Rights Act protects gay and transgender people from workplace discrimination. Transcript Listen to ‘The Daily’: A Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Hosted by Michael Barbaro, produced by Annie Brown, Luke Vander Ploeg, Asthaa Chaturvedi and Sydney Harper, and edited by M.J. The Department of Health and Human Services issued a regulation on Friday that undid protections for transgender patients against discrimination by doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies. The Trump administration had urged the court to rule against gay and transgender workers, and it has barred most transgender people from serving in the military. “I’ve read the decision,” he said, “and some people were surprised, but they’ve ruled and we live with their decision.” He added that it was a “very powerful decision, actually.” “Many of us feared that the court was poised to gut sex discrimination protections and allow employers to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity, yet it declined the federal government’s invitation to take that damaging path.” “This is a simple and profound victory for L.G.B.T. rights were elated by the ruling, which they said was long overdue. and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Trump’s first appointment to the court, was joined by Chief Justice John G.
Monday’s lopsided ruling, coming from a fundamentally conservative court, was a surprise. An employee who married a same-sex partner in the morning could be fired that afternoon for being gay. But even as the Supreme Court established that right in 2015, workplace discrimination remained lawful in most of the country. The decision achieved a decades-long goal of gay rights proponents, one they had initially considered much easier to achieve than a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
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The vastly consequential decision thus extended workplace protections to millions of people across the nation, continuing a series of Supreme Court victories for gay rights even after President Trump transformed the court with his two appointments. Until Monday’s decision, it was legal in more than half of the states to fire workers for being gay, bisexual or transgender. The decision, the first major case on transgender rights, came amid widespread demonstrations, some protesting violence aimed at transgender people of color. community - bathrooms, locker rooms, sports, pronouns and religious objections to same-sex marriage. That opinion and two dissents, spanning 168 pages, touched on a host of flash points in the culture wars involving the L.G.B.T.
Gorsuch wrote for the majority in the 6-to-3 ruling. “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law,” Justice Neil M. equality a long-sought and unexpected victory. WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination, handing the movement for L.G.B.T.
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