The LGBT community won a battle against workplace discrimination and I honestly didn’t think it would turn out this way. Alito dissented (because he’s a shitbag) and Kavanaugh dissented (because he’s a shitbag who wanted to punt the responsibility to Congress) but Gorsuch basically agreeing with the argument every logical person has been using from the beginning was a shock.
The landmark ruling will extend protections to millions of workers nationwide and is a defeat for the Trump administration, which argued that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act that bars discrimination based on sex did not extend to claims of gender identity and sexual orientation.The 6-3 opinion was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s four liberal justices.(cont. CNN)
You can’t discriminate against someone based on their sex. If you are discriminating against someone because they are gay, that is sex discrimination — you would not have the same attitude about Alex dating a man if Alex was a woman, so your attitude comes from the fact that Alex is a man with another man. If you are discriminating against someone because they are trans, that is sex discrimination — you would not have the same attitude about Alex wearing a dress if Alex was assigned female at birth, so your attitude comes from the fact that Alex was assigned male at birth but is living as a woman.
I was so nervous about this case I stopped talking about it months ago. What a sigh of relief and a great way to start the week.
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