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D.C. District Court recognizes transgender discrimination as sex discrimination

Started by Shana A, September 22, 2008, 08:19:26 AM

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Shana A

D.C. District Court recognizes transgender discrimination as sex discrimination
POSTED September 21, 9:17 PM
Marcia McCormick - Workplace Law Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/x-830-Workplace-Law-Examiner~y2008m9d21-DC-District-Court-recognizes-transgender-discrimination-as-sex-discrimination

Last Friday the District Court for the District of Columbia released a widely anticipated decision in the case of a woman who was transgendered and who had not been hired by the Library of Congress because of that fact. The case is Schroer v. Billington, and the court found that discrimination on the basis of changing sex was discrimination on the basis of sex, prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Although born male, Diane Schroer identifies as female. She has an internal, psychological sense of herself as a woman. In August 2004, before she changed her legal name or began dressing publicly as a woman, Schroer applied for the position of Specialist in Terrorism and International Crime with the Congressional Research Service (CRS) at the Library of Congress. The terrorism specialist provides expert policy analysis to congressional committees, members of Congress and their staffs. Schroer was well-qualified for the job, having served in the U.S. armed forces in special forces and special operations and having directed an organization that tracked international terrorist groups. Although she was undergoing the long psychological and physical treatment to transition from male to female, she had not yet reached the stage of presenting herself as a woman. She applied under her legal, male name. She was the most qualified candidate in the view of the hiring staff at the Library of Congress, and was given the position. After the hiring paperwork had been submitted but before Schroer actually started work, she told her superiors that she would be transitioning to female and that when she began the job, she would do so as female. The Library rescinded the offer and gave the job to a less qualified man.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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RebeccaFog

Isn't a part of a woman's life experience that you're job will be given to a less qualified man?

Well, I like the way that old civil rights act still comes in useful.
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