Aimee Stephens, the transgender woman at the center of the Supreme Court's blockbuster case concerning whether LGBTQ workers are covered by federal anti-discrimination law, has died according to her lawyers. She was 59.
Stephens was suffering from complications related to kidney disease and she died at her home in Detroit with her wife, Donna Stephens, at her side. "Aimee did not set out to be a hero and a trailblazer, but she is one," ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio said in a statement."And our country owes her a debt of gratitude for her commitment to justice for all people and her dedication to our transgender community.
" Stephens sued, arguing that she had been terminated on the basis of her transgender status.Rost testified in the lower court that Stephens was fired because she was"no longer going to represent himself as a man." "In discharging Ms. Stephens for being transgender," her lawyer, David Cole, the national legal director of the ACLU, argued the funeral home"contravened Title VII's core premise: that employees should be judged on their merit, not their sex.
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