Transgendered woman sues LSI
Lawsuit alleges engineer was laid off after gender transition
May 14, 2011|By Peter Hall, OF THE MORNING CALL

http://articles.mcall.com/2011-05-14/news/mc-gender-identity-lawsuit-20110514_1_gender-identity-lsi-and-agere-transgendered

Janis Stacy knew her transformation from a man to a woman would be difficult for some of her coworkers to understand.

That's why the former product engineer at Agere Systems met in February 2005 with colleagues who knew her as Jim to explain why she had chosen to change her appearance.

Those meetings marked the start of a pattern of discrimination by the company, Stacy alleges in a federal lawsuit. In January 2008, after she had completed her gender transition, Stacy was singled out to be laid off, the lawsuit says.