AGs Want to Strip Transgender Anti-Discrimination Protection | News Blog

AGs Want to Strip Transgender Anti-Discrimination Protection | News Blog:

Tennessee’s chief law enforcement official wants to make it easier for employers to fire employees because of their gender identity.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in March that transgender status was protected in federal anti-discrimination law. Title VII says only that an employee can’t be fired “because of sex.”

But the court counted gender identity among Title VII’s protections in a Michigan case, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. RG & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc.

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