American Eagle Outfitters settles transgender suit

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American Eagle Outfitters settles transgender suit
Pittsburgh Business Times
by Tim Schooley
17 May, 2010


http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2010/05/17/daily7.html


American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., based on the South Side of Pittsburgh, is revising its employee handbook's requirements for gender-specific appearance as part of a compromise settlement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, according to a report published in the New York Daily News last week.

The issue was brought to the New York Attorney General's office by a community group called Make the Road New York, which claimed that American Eagle discriminates against transgendered people because its employee conduct code includes a "personal appearance" clause that banned men from wearing women's clothing and vice versa.