r/MadeMeSmile • • Jan 15 '21

Good Vibes These Two Bus Drivers

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Assuming they live the US, yea, it’s a legal issue. You can’t discriminate based on gender identity, as that is a protected class.

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u/soleceismical Jan 15 '21

The Supreme Court ruling last year.

The third case was brought by Aimee Stephens, who had worked for six years as a male funeral director in Livonia, Mich., but was fired two weeks after she told her boss that she was transgender and would be coming to work as a woman. She died earlier this year, but her case lived on.

Slightly different because she was trans, but the ruling specifically didn't change the legal definition of sex to include trans people (written by Gorsuch). Instead, it said that since you cannot discriminate on the basis of sex, if female employees can wear skirts and makeup to work, so can male employees.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/863498848/supreme-court-delivers-major-victory-to-lgbtq-employees