ArticleJustice 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
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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.
