The Trump administration is gearing up for a serious battle over LGBTQ+ equality
, involves a transgender woman named Aimee Stephens who was fired from her longtime job after informing her employer that she was transitioning.
All of the workers argue that they should be protected under Title VII, the section of the federal Civil Rights Act that bans discrimination on the basis of sex, since they each were fired for not conforming to another person’s opinion of how they should look or act. Basically, that means if your boss fires you because you’re a man in a relationship with another man, butfire you if you were dating a woman, it’s a form of sex discrimination.
“The Trump administration’s position defies logic and common sense,” Ria Tabacco Mar, a senior staff attorney for the ACLU, said in an email to MTV News. “They concede that employers may not penalize workers based on ‘gender norms,’ yet assert that discriminating based on moral beliefs about sexual or marital relationships has ‘nothing to do with’ gender norms.”
According to previous courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , the Trump administration has it all wrong, as Lambda Legal senior counsel Gregory Nevins pointed out to MTV News. Trump’s Justice Department argued on Friday that Congress never meant for ‘sex’ to include sexual orientation when it passed the law in 1964, saying in the Supreme Court brief that “the ordinary meaning of ‘sex’ is biologically male or female; it does not include sexual orientation.
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