A Lawsuit’s Unusual Question: Who Is a Man?

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A Lawsuit's Unusual Question: Who Is a Man?
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Published: April 10, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/nyregion/11sexchange.html?_r=1

What is a man? For El'Jai Devoureau, this is not a rhetorical question.

El'Jai Devoureau, 39, said he was asked by his supervisor if he had undergone any operations to change his sex.

Mr. Devoureau, who was born physically female, is a man at the Motor Vehicle Commission, at the Social Security office, at home, at job interviews. But what about at the urinal?

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TLDEF Files Suit on Behalf of Transgender Man Fired from Male-Only Job

http://transgenderlegal.org/headline_show.php?id=346

First-Ever Lawsuit to Challenge Discriminatory View That Transgender Men Cannot Work As Men

April 11, 2011 – Last Friday, TLDEF filed a lawsuit on behalf of a transgender man who was fired from a male-only job solely because he is transgender.  This is the first lawsuit to challenge the firing of a transgender person from a job where being male or female is a job qualification.  We broke the story in today's New York Times.