Golinski v. OPM: How Does It Affect Gender Identity Discrimination?

http://www.bilerico.com/2011/07/golinski_v_opm_how_does_it_affect_gender_identity.php
7/7/11
Jillian T Weiss

The Department of Justice filed a brief on July 1 in Karen Golinski's lawsuit seeking equal benefits at work so that she can insure her wife. As described by Chris Geidner of Metroweekly, it is "the single-most persuasive legal argument ever advanced by the United States government in support of equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people." Geidner goes on to note that, although the case does not include transgender issues, "the government's previously described position that the same legal standard should apply to gender identity classifications could prove helpful for court cases looking at gender identity-based discrimination."