ACLU on Jobs American Civil Liberties Union

No discrimination for sexual orientation or gender identity

The transgender case ruled on by the court involved Aimee Stephens, who was dismissed from her job at a Michigan funeral home two weeks after she told them she was transgender. Her boss explained she failed to follow the dress code.

The ACLU told the court hers was a clear case of sex discrimination, because if she had been assigned female sex at birth she would not have been fired for wanting to come to work dressed as a woman. Instead Stephens was assigned male sex and was fired because she failed to conform to the sex stereotypes of her employer, it argued.

The Trump administration had urged the court to rule that Title VII does not cover cases like these.