Acknowledging the Past
News Analysis: DOJ's admission of the ''regrettable role'' of the federal government in anti-gay discrimination – and criticism of state and local discrimination – is historic
by Chris Geidner
Published on July 5, 2011, 11:34am
http://metroweekly.com/news/?ak=6399The Department of Justice's July 1 "Defendants' Brief in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss" in Karen Golinski's lawsuit seeking equal benefits at work in the federal courts so that she can insure her wife is a must-read legal filing that became a historic document almost immediately upon its submission.
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The brief, filed in the Northern District of California, is the single-most persuasive legal argument ever advanced by the United States government in support of equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Moreover, although the case did not include transgender issues, the government's previously described position that the same legal standard should apply to gender identity classifications could prove helpful for court cases looking at gender identity-based discrimination.
