Supreme Court Rules Federal Civil Rights Law Protects LGBTQ+ From Job Discrimination
Written by Andre on June 15, 2020
A big win for the LGBTQ+ community in the United States Supreme Court Monday. The Supreme Court ruled the employers can not fire or discriminate against you based on sex. The landmark ruling covers gender identity and sexual orientation under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Trumps Administration argued the authors of the 1964 Civil Rights Act never intended it to protect gender identity and sexual orientation. What’s interesting is the first Supreme Court nominee from President Trump Neil Gorsuch wrote the decision. Gorsuch said, acting against an employee on those grounds necessarily takes sex into account.
He also wrote in the decision “An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.”
It was a 6-3 decision even as the Supreme Court has become more conservative.
Celebration is in order, happy PRIDE Month!!
Source: BBC.com
