On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the current existing federal law prohibits any job discrimination against any worker due to their sexual orientation.
According to NBC News, the decision was announced to two different cases. The court said that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, makes it illegal for an employer to discriminate because of a person’s sex, which also includes their sexual orientation and transgender status. Rulings from a lower court ruled that kind of discrimination, under those circumstances, would be considered a form of sex discrimination.
According to CNN, Justice Neil Gorsuch said, “An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.”
The Trump administration tried to argue that Title VII of the act did not extend to claims of gender identity and sexual orientation. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court ruling has proven the administration wrong.
There are millions of workers across the nation that are a part of the LGBTQ community, and according to UCLA’s Williams Institute, there are twenty-two states, including the District of Columbia, that have regulations in place that are protecting workers based on their sexual orientation.
As we previously reported, the Trump Administration also finalized a regulation that overturns protections for transgender people against discrimination in health care. This protection was granted when Barack Obama served as president.
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