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Recent Federal Rulings Shift Toward Title VII Protection of Transsexual Employees

February 06, 2007

BY JON GEIER

Recent federal court decisions indicate that courts are more receptive to the argument that Title VII protects transsexual employees from discrimination by their employers, even though Congress has not amended the federal statue to name transsexuals as a protected class. Transsexual employees, once thought to have no viable claim under Title VII, are now successfully prosecuting such claims.

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