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Interesting piece originally in the SF Chronicle:
Article reprinted in the Pink Pages
A federal judge has awarded a former Army Special Forces commander nearly $500,000 because she was rejected from a job at the Library of Congress while transitioning from a man to a woman....
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An Important Case
This ruling has potentially far reaching effects. Federal district court judge James Robertson said in his ruling that Diane Schroer's case was "discrimination based on sex", essentially establishing that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which provides protection from discrimination based on gender, applies to transgender persons even though they are not specifically mentioned in the statute.
Scott
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I cried for a world that wouldn’t let her be.
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Barnes v Cincinnati (2002)
Back in 2002, the US Sixth District also ruled that the blatant harassment and discrimination Philecia Barnes faced at the hands of the Cincinnati Police Department during her transition violated her rights under Title VII. She was awarded over $100k, and her law firm got over $600k!
Every victory comes with a price, though. Because these are District Courts, they don't have the national impact a ruling from the US Supreme Court would have. Barnes v Cincinnati was rejected by the SCOTUS, so we have to fight in four states to get the ruling recognized.