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Issue Number 1020 | Sex. Gender. Employment Discrimination | Advocate.com

Submitted by Jenniferweil

Nov 07, 2008

Summary

Diane Schroer was offered a job as a terrorism research analyst by the Library of Congress in December 2004 -- but she was known as David Schroer at the time. Yet when the decorated Army veteran told her would-be boss that she was about to undergo sex-reassignment surgery, the offer was revoked. Schroer sued, claiming sex discrimination. The library countered that workers like her enjoyed no such legal protection.

But on September 19 a federal district court in Washington, D.C., sided with Schroer, ruling that she was indeed discriminated against on the basis of sex -- a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. It was the first time a transgender person had won a lawsuit on such grounds.

Predictably, the American Civil Liberties Union and Sharon McGowan of the ACLU’s LGBT Project, who represented Schroer, were immediately inundated by press requests for quotes. But there wer Read the full article

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