'These are crucially important cases for LGBTQ workers, women workers, and frankly all workers.' The impossibly high stakes of Aimee Stephens's Supreme Court case
Tuesday’s oral arguments may mark “the first time the word ‘transgender’ is spoken during oral arguments in the highest court in the United States.”
“These are crucially important cases for LGBTQ workers, women workers, and frankly all workers,” Sunu Chandy, the legal director at the National Women’s Law Center, told Jezebel. “Employers, whether they’re hiring, firing, promoting people—that’s supposed to happen without sex discrimination. And the question right now is, do LGBTQ workers get those protections too, or not?”Chandy added that the ramifications of these three cases go beyond workplace discrimination protections for LGBT workers.
Employers, whether they’re hiring, firing, promoting people—that’s supposed to happen without sex discrimination. And the question right now is, do LGBTQ workers get those protections too, or not? Stephens, who for years was a funeral director at R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes in Michigan, was fired in 2013 after she wrote to her employer Thomas Rost that she was trans. “I will return to work as my true self, Aimee Australia Stephens, in appropriate business attire,” she wrote. “I hope we can continue my work at R. G. and G. R.
It’s clear that Rost and the ADF are attacking trans rights in particular, and using the standard rightwing,to do so. In its brief, the ADF claimed that “redefining sex discrimination will cause problems in employment law, reduce bodily-privacy protections for everyone, and erode equal opportunities for women and girls, among many other consequences.” Tellingly, a who’s who of anti-trans bigots havein support of Rost, from the Heritage Foundation’s Ryan T.
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