16 states urge high court to reject federal protections for transgender workers
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GOP officials from 16 states are asking the Supreme Court to decide that federal civil rights law doesn’t protect workers on the basis of gender identity.
Republican officials from 16 states are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that a transgender woman who was fired after coming out to her boss was unlawfully discriminated against, and rule that federal civil rights law does not provide protections on the basis of gender identity.
A recent report from the Williams Institute, a think tank at UCLA School of Law, estimates the 16 states represented in the brief have a combined population of more than 331,000 transgender adults — a quarter of the estimated 1.4 million transgender adults across the U.S.
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