G. R. Funeral homes versus the equal Employment Opportunity commission. Mr. Cole . Mr. Chief justice, may it please the court, Aimee Stephens is a transgender woman, a valued employee for six years until she told her boss she was going to live and identify as a woman. When harris homes responded by firing her it discriminated against her because of her sex for three reasons, first in firing her for failing to conform to its owners explicitly stated stereotypes about how men and women should behave, it discriminated against her in the same way that Price Waterhouse discriminated against ann hopkins for failing to walk and talk more femininely. It cant be that ann hopkins would lose her case on the same facts were she transgender. Second, Harris Holmes fired her for identifying as a woman only because she was assigned a male sex at birth. In doing so, it fired her for controvening only people assigned a male sex at birth namely that they live as a male their entire lives. Second, fired f
Stereotypes about how men and women should behave. It discriminates against her the same way as Price Waterhouse discriminated against and hopkins for failing to walk and talk more feminine league. And hopkins that would lose her case on the same facts. Second, harris fired her for identifying as a woman only because she was assigned male sex at birth. In doing so they fired her for contravening a sex specific expectation that applies only to people assigned male sex at birth. They live and identify as a man for their entire lives. Is mistreatment on the basis of sex. Harris fired her for changing her sex, that is discrimination the same way firing someone for changing their religion would be religious dissemination. Harris would fire transgender men for being insufficiently feminine and transgender women for being insufficiently mass killing is as the government conceives none of these arguments ask the court to redefine or update sex. Minimum sex a assigned at birth based on physical
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Rights law protects against Sexual Orientation employment discrimination. This is about hour. The employer has discriminated against the man because he treats that man worse than women who want to do the same thing. That discrimination is because those words, because the adverse employment action is based on the male employees failure to conform to a particular expectation about how men should behave, that men should be only attracted to women and not to men. Analytic difference between this kind of discrimination and forms of discrimination that have been already recognized by every court to have oppressed them. For example, discrimination of men who are effeminate rather than macho. Discrimination here, that discrimination is because of nonconformity with an expectation of how men should behave. Ofnnot in the words that attempt is futile because win a man is discriminated against for being gay, he is discriminated against for not conforming to an expectation on how men should behave.
And that it was time that somebody stood up and said enough is enough. Amy the cases mark the first time the Supreme Court will rule on lgbtq rights since conservative Justice Brett kavanaugh replaced anthony kennedy, who had written many of the courts major lgbtq rights rulings. We are joined right now by two guests. Laverne cox is an Award Winning transgender actress and long time trans rights activist. Best known for her role on the show orange is the new black. In 2014, she became the first transgender person on the cover and the firstne openly trans person to be nominated for an emmy award in a primetime category. We are also joined by chase strangio, Deputy Director for transgender justice with the aclus lgbt hiv project. His work includes impact litigation, as well as legislative and administrative advocacy, on behalf of lgbtq people and People Living with hiv across the uniteted states. We welcome you both to democracy now it is great to have you with us. Tuesday is a significa