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Last year has seen big changes in the workplace for LGBTQ employees. First, there was the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which interpreted Title...
Pride Month is dedicated to the celebration of LGBTQ culture and the continued fight for the community’s civil rights and equality. Nowhere has the fight for equality been more...
Florida Implements Bostock Today, Florida’s Commission on Human Relations announced its intention to fully implement the Bostock v. Clayton County decision on the state level. This action means that Florida’s more than 772,000 LGBTQ residents will now be protected under state law against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, and public accommodations. “Today’s action by the Florida Commission on Human Relations is an enormous victory for LGBTQ people across the state who will now be protected under state law against discriminatio...
Bostock v. Clayton County. [1] There, the Court held that by barring employer discrimination against any individual “because of such individual’s . . . sex,” Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also bars employment discrimination because an individual is gay or transgender. The paper then speculates about how much Bostock will affect how likely lower court judges will read other “sex” discrimination prohibitions in the U.S. Code in the same way, in part based on a canvass of the text of about 150 of those prohibitions. The paper also discusses the religion-based defenses t...
Human Rights Campaign Calls On States To Implement Bostock Decision Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization —following President Biden’s historic Day One Executive Order, calls upon states lacking LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws to follow suit by implementing the Supreme Court’s Bostock decision to state sex nondiscrimination laws. State civil rights or human rights commissions should begin accepting complaints in accordance with Bostock under state sex nondiscrimation laws, and atto...