Скачать или смотреть Fired for being transgender The fight for LGBTQ workers rights 2020 06 18

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It took Aimee Stephens several months to write a letter to her boss explaining that she was a transgender woman and planned to start coming to work as her true self., but didnt want to hide who she was anymore.She agonized over what to say in the letter, wrote several drafts and sought input from her therapist. Finally satisfied, she handed the letter to her boss in the summer of 2013."He read it, he folded it up and put it in his pocket," Stephens recalled in an interview with CNN. "And basically stood up and walked away."She was fired two weeks later."I was proposing to go from being a man in a suit to a woman in a dress and they couldnt handle that part," Stephens said.The funeral home had a dress code that required male funeral directors to wear pant suits and women to wear skirt suits."The goal is to help family and friends of deceased to get through the grieving process," said John Bursch, senior counsel and vice president of Appellate Advocacy at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative religious group representing the funeral home.The company also worried Stephens transition would distract customers. "If a funeral home employee looks one way one day and a different way another day, when the family comes in later, that is taking the focus off the grief and onto the funeral home," said Bursch.The funeral home has since appealed the ruling and the Supreme Court is set to hear the case later this year.The funeral home said it appealed the decision because it claims it is being punished for a change in federal law that it could not have anticipated. "Businesses should be able to rely on the meaning of laws as they are written, not subjected to the whims of a court imposing its policy preferences after the fact," said Bursch.LGBTQ workers in limboBy agreeing to hear Stephens case, in addition to two others this fall, the Supreme Court is set to determine whether sexual orientation and gender identification are considered protected