The 6-3 decision is a monumental milestone in workplace equality. (via latimesopinion)
, including California, prohibit discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, the justices’ decision will provide nationwide protection.by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the majority persuasively concluded that dismissing or refusing to hire employees because of their sexual orientation or transgender status amounts to “sex” discrimination prohibited by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
As Gorsuch put it: “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.” He offered the example of an employer with a male and a female employee, both attracted to men.
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