Who am I? EEOC recognizes gender identity discrimination
Editor’s Note: Will Oden is a member of the Labor and Employment Practice Group at Ward and Smith, P.A. Background Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on sex (along with other protected classifications such as religion, race, age, pregnancy, and national origin). Title VII has not yet been extended to sexual preference. Further, several courts ruled back in the 1980s that the ban on sex discrimination did not protect transgendered individuals – that is, individuals who, because they believe they were born the wrong sex, undergo medical procedures to “correct” what they see...
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