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Title: Fired NYC Transgender Gets Green Light For $3 Million Discrimination Suit
Post by: LostInTime on August 21, 2006, 10:08:00 AM
Post by: LostInTime on August 21, 2006, 10:08:00 AM
Article (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ci=108&ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=14377)
Justice Joan Lefkowitz held that although discrimination against a transgender person is not specifically listed in the law it is covered nonetheless, WCBS channel 2 in New York reports.
Eric Buffong, who was born Erica Buffong, said he was harassed at work and then fired after a colleague came to work taunting him with a high school yearbook photo of Buffong as a woman.
Posted at: August 21, 2006, 10:07:07 AM
And another one (http://uk.gay.com/headlines/10268).
A cook who claims he was fired from a fancy Westchester, NY, restaurant after coworkers discovered he is a biological woman is protected by the state's human rights law, a judge has ruled.
Justice Joan Lefkowitz held that although discrimination against a transgender person is not specifically listed in the law it is covered nonetheless, WCBS channel 2 in New York reports.
Eric Buffong, who was born Erica Buffong, said he was harassed at work and then fired after a colleague came to work taunting him with a high school yearbook photo of Buffong as a woman.
Posted at: August 21, 2006, 10:07:07 AM
And another one (http://uk.gay.com/headlines/10268).
A cook who claims he was fired from a fancy Westchester, NY, restaurant after coworkers discovered he is a biological woman is protected by the state's human rights law, a judge has ruled.