GayCityNews.com – By Arthur Leonard
A federal judge has embraced an ingenious analogy between religious conversion and gender transition to explain his September 19 ruling that refusing to hire a transsexual applicant constitutes employment discrimination “because of sex,” a violation of the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act.
Ruling on Diane J. Schroer’s claim that the Library of Congress illegally discriminated against her when it withdrew a job offer after learning that she planned to transition from a man to a woman, US District Judge James Robertson ruled for her and directed the court’s clerk to schedule a conference with the parties to discuss a remedy.