Labor/Employment
Apr. 26, 2017
What is sex?: Expanding LGBT rights under Title VII
The widely discussed recent 7th Circuit ruling may expand protections not only to gay, lesbian and bisexual employees, but also to transgender employees.
Megan E. Walker
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Fisher & Phillips LLP
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Earlier this month, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a groundbreaking, full en banc panel decision, holding that discrimination based on an employee's sexual orientation is sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College. The court's decision also criticized 33-year-old precedent denying Title VII protections to "transsexual" (transgender) employees. In so doing, Hively could serve as a springboard to ex...
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