Rare Transgender Employment Discrimination Lawsuit Filed Against Burlington Coat Factory
Evan Hill
The Recorder
February 26, 2009
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202428604943Maya Perez, a transgender woman, claims to have suffered years of physical and verbal abuse while working at a Burlington Coat Factory store in San Francisco, all because of her gender identity. On Tuesday, she joined the short list of transgender people litigating such conduct.
Her lawyers, from the San Francisco Legal Aid Society's Employment Law Center, said Perez's case is one of a small number of employment discrimination suits brought by transgender people since California's Fair Employment and Housing Act was expanded to protect gender identity in 2004.
