11th Circuit: Transgender Discrimination Is Sex-Based Discrimination

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A Georgia transgender woman has won her appeal that she was illegally fired for planning to make her gender transition. Vandy Beth Glenn had been a legislative editor in the Georgia General Assembly, but her supervisor, now-retired legislative counsel Sewell Brumby, testified that he found the thought of her transition “unsettling,” “unnatural,” and something that others would view as “immoral.” .....

"We conclude that a government agent violates the Equal Protection Clause’s prohibition of sex-based discrimination when he or she fires a transgender or transsexual employee because of his or her gender non-conformity."

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Milestone ruling for Transgender employment protection.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/12/06/383107/11th-circuit-transgender-discrimination-is-sex-based-discrimination/