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Trump administration says transgender workers aren't protected by civil rights, Supreme Court filing reveals

Published by Yahoo on Sun, 18 Aug 2019


Donald Trump's administration has told the Supreme Court that transgender workers are not protected by federal civil rights law and can be fired because of their gender.The US government is arguing workers should only be protected from discrimination based on their 'biological sex', court filings have revealed.A Supreme Court ruling in favour of the administration's position would set a legal precedent, marking a major setback for LGBTQ rights since the Obama administration.The court filing relates to an upcoming court case involving transgender funeral home worker Aimee Stephens, who was fired from her job after telling her employer about her transition.'In 1964, the ordinary public meaning of 'sex' was biological sex. It did not encompass transgender status,' the document filed on Friday reads.The 1964 Civil Rights Act states employers cannot discriminate based on sex, race, colour, religion, and national origin. 'Title VII [of the act] does not prohibit discrimination against transgender persons based on their transgender status,' the filing argues. 'It simply does not speak to discrimination because of an individual's gender identity or a disconnect between an individual's gender identity and the individual's sex.'Under Barack Obama, the Justice Department decreed that Title VII did protect transgender workers. This meant Court of Appeals judges sided with Stephens in 2018.But former attorney general Jeff Sessions reversed the government's stance after Mr Trump took office in 2017.The Trump administration has since banned transgender people from joining the US military, reversing an Obama-era policy that allowed them to openly serve.The ban, which puts 14,700 jobs at risk, was formally upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this year.Mr Trump has previously claimed to be 'perhaps the most pro-LGBT presidential nominee in the history of the Republican Party'.The Supreme Court will hear Stephens's case on 8 October. It is one of three cases concerning LGBTQ workers rights expected to come before the court in the autumn.
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