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Article: Give shield for gender identity?
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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AS a lawyer who represents employees, I regularly see the
insidious ways gender-nonconforming individuals endure
discrimination at work. In some cases, employers simply refuse to
hire individuals whose gender identity or expression is not
consistent with the employer's ideas of what it means to be a man or
a woman. In others, these employees are subjected to harassment and
abuse at the hands of co-workers and supervisors. Some transgender
folks are fired when they tell their supervisor they plan to
transition from female to male or male to female.
Existing statutory schemes and case law do not provide adequate
protections for gender nonconforming and transgender individuals.
The law also ...