Lambda Legal Defends Transgender Woman Fired by Georgia General Assembly
by: Pam Spaulding
Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 12:19:50 PM EST
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Just in (via email press release):
Late yesterday, Lambda Legal filed papers in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit defending a lower court ruling that the Georgia General Assembly discriminated against Lambda Legal client Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman who was fired from her job as Legislative Editor after she told her supervisor that she planned to transition from male to female.
"We're looking forward to making our case at the Eleventh Circuit. It is clear Vandy Beth Glenn was fired because her boss didn't like her as she is. That is unfair and illegal", said Greg Nevins, Supervising Senior Staff Attorney in Lambda Legal's Southern Regional Office in Atlanta. "The law is on our side here, but transgender employees are still vulnerable to sex discrimination from their employers who don't understand it. A clear statement from Congress - made by passing the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) would protect LGBT employees and provide helpful, clear guidance to employers. Because nobody wants the right to sue as much as they want to be free of work-place discrimination in the first place."
