A former Dallas Arboretum employee says they were unjustly fired because of their gender identity — despite boosting attendance at the Children’s Garden and...
The employee said they were fired for their gender identity and expression and that the issue is illustrative of patterns of bigotry by management.A former Dallas Arboretum employee says they were unjustly fired because of their gender identity — despite boosting attendance at the Children’s Garden and receiving praise from co-workers — and claims their termination is illustrative of a larger culture of discrimination at the organization.
A spokeswoman for the arboretum, Terry Lendecker, said in an email that the facility had not been notified about the complaint by the EEOC. The Dallas EEOC office did not respond to requests for comment, but a national spokesman said the commission cannot speak about pending complaints. The Dallas Fair Housing Office, which investigates allegations of employment discrimination, did not respond to requests for comment.
It was the first time the employee had shared their gender identity, the complaint says. Genderqueer typically describes someone who views their gender as fluid or outside the binary of male or female, according to theAt that time, the arboretum did not have a standard format for email signatures. Some employees had quotes, mantras or Bible verses in their signatures, Skeen said.
The next day, that manager and the arboretum’s director of human resources told the employee during a meeting that “the Arboretum is a ‘conservative institution,’ that donors had complained about employees’ use of pronoun pins, and that the Arboretum could ‘not promote an agenda,’” the complaint says. They were told not to introduce themselves with their pronouns or wear pronoun pins.that donors did not explicitly complain about their pins, which were about the size of a quarter.
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