{"id":134961,"date":"2017-10-06T14:49:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134961"},"modified":"2017-10-06T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T04:00:02","slug":"jeff-sessions-says-okay-fire-transgender-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/06\/jeff-sessions-says-okay-fire-transgender-workers.html","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Sessions says it’s okay to fire transgender workers again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because of course he did. Probably with a prayer on his lips and a song in his heart.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Justice has reversed course on whether federal law banning sex discrimination in the workplace provides protections for transgender employees, saying in a memo that it does not. The memo sent to U.S. Attorneys’ offices on Wednesday by Attorney General Jeff Sessions says Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 only prohibits discrimination on the basis of a worker’s biological sex, and not their gender identity.<\/p>\n

Sessions rescinded a Justice Department memo from 2014 that said Title VII does protect transgender people, a position also taken by several federal appeals courts in recent years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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Because of course he did. Probably with a prayer on his lips and a song in his heart. The U.S. Department of Justice has reversed course on whether federal law banning sex discrimination in the workplace provides protections for transgender employees, saying in a memo that it does not. 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