Community.Feministing.com – Posted by Ismonie
For the first time in the history of Title VII, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, a federal trial court has ruled that a woman-born-man, Diane Schroer, can recover for discrimination, because discrimination against a man transitioning to being a woman is discrimination “based on . . . sex.” (Previoiusly, transgendered persons have had some avenues of recovery under the Price-Waterhouse line of cases, most of which involved cisgendered persons who failed to meet stereotyped expectations regarding gender presentation, i.e., attire, makeup, gestures, hair length, etc.)…