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Title: Activists pin hopes on Obama banning transgender bias
Post by: Natasha on December 15, 2008, 05:11:58 PM
Activists pin hopes on Obama banning transgender bias

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081215/OPINION03/812150344 (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081215/OPINION03/812150344)
Deb Price
12/15/2008

Six months ago, a highly decorated retired Army colonel told Congress of instantly going from "hero to zero" in the eyes of a prospective employer when she disclosed that she was in the process of changing gender.

Since that hearing, Congress has done nothing to protect transgender workers, despite evidence of outrageous job discrimination.  But a federal judge has stepped in to say that the Library of Congress broke the law against sex discrimination by rescinding the job offer it had made before learning David Schroer was becoming Diane.