“Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender,” Justice Gorsuch wrote. “The answer is clear”
and the court’s liberal justices in the majority ruling. “An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.”
The decision—which makes it illegal to discriminate against employees or prospective employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity—came in response to a pair of cases:, a social worker, and Donald Zarda, a skydiving instructor who has since died, had filed lawsuits arguing they were terminated over their sexual orientation, and Aimee Stephens, who passed away from kidney failure last month, was fired from her position at a Michigan funeral home after telling her employer and...
It’s a somewhat surprising ruling from a court the administration has gradually helped push to the right. Of the nine justices, three dissented, includinghelped install in 2018 after he was accused of sexual misconduct as a teenager. The Trump administration had
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