Feds sue Harley dealership for firing transgender mechanic

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Feds sue Harley dealership for firing transgender mechanic

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=3368
10/2/2008

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing
locally-owned Dudley Perkins Company, one of the country's oldest
Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealerships, for allegedly violating
federal law when it fired a transgender mechanic after she filed a
sex discrimination complaint against it.

According to the federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday, September 30, the
dealership hired Bowen Dean, 44, as an entry-level lot technician on
June 23, 2005. Yet, despite her training as a Harley-Davidson
mechanic, Dean was never allowed to perform the duties she was
originally hired to do, and instead was assigned to customer service
and bookkeeping work, according to the results of the commission's investigation.