Several Alabama politicians say they are concerned about children’s safety at Huntsville’s Space Camp after a parent complained about the presence of a transgender employee.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville and Reps. Dale Strong and Robert Aderholt posted statements on X, formerly known as Twitter, after a parent posted on Facebook complaining about the gender identity of one of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center employees. The topic was also picked up by the Libs of TikTok account.
Firing an employee for being transgender would be such a slam dunk of a discrimination/wrongful termination lawsuit. Easy fucking money.
LGBT+ are not actually a protected class in a lot of states. They kind of get covered by gender protections, but not completely, so I can definitely see this happening with no legal consequences.
Section 508 of the Social Security Act makes it illegal in all 50 states.
Incorrect. The Supreme Court ruled that no employee in the United States can be fired on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, enshrining LGBTQ protections as part of the Civil Rights Act. The ruling occurred in 2020.
Fun fact, according to the supreme Court, the part of the civil rights act that protects from discrimination on grounds of your sex also protects gender identity and sexual orientation as both of these require taking the person’s sex into consideration to discriminate in the first place.