Transgender laws challenged in firing case

[deadparrot]

TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A worker at a New York restaurant is going forward with a discrimination lawsuit, alleging he was fired because he was born a female but later became a male.

Eric Buffong, who was born Erica Buffong, said he was harassed at work and then fired after a colleague came to work brandishing a high school yearbook photo of Buffong as a woman, the New York Daily News reported.

"Prior to that I was the chef's No. 1 guy. Just because I was born a female and I chose to be a male, it's a problem now?" asked Buffong, 27.

Now, in a landmark ruling, a judge told Buffong he can go forward with his lawsuit against Tarrytown's Castle on the Hudson, which houses the five-star restaurant Equus, where Buffong worked.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060818-104801-6195r

[MADem]

1. I'd include that "colleague" in the suit, too

What a shithead.

I mean, who CARES?

[xchrom]

2. sexists and bigots care.

you have to wonder how much the restaurant would have cared if the employees like the sexist and bigot in the article mentioned hadn't decided to be so self righteous?

this goes past disgusting -- you go to work to survive and support yourself -- not to be subjected to others bigotry.

[Richard Steele]

3. People with a nebulous, gnawing feeling of INFERIORITY care.

They spend a lot of time in tranparently desperate
eforts to portray others as somehow 'lesser' than they are.

And it saves a lot of time if you define 'lesser'
as being the same as 'different', donchaknow.

[Kickoutthejams23]

4. I Agree who cares if the waitress used to be a waiter.

The article doesn't say if the restaurant fired the employee who harassed the transgender and brought in the photo. In most "real" business he would be the first and only person out the door.

[knitter4democracy]

5. How awful! Who the heck cares?

I don't care if someone I work with was someone else in high school. On some level, weren't we all? Leave him alone.

[Zhade]

6. K/R

Transpeople are taxpaying citizens with rights, too!