Original Article: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/22/716010002/supreme-court-will-hear-cases-on-lgbtq-discrimination-protections-for-employees
Soon, the Supreme Court will be hearing cases to do with discrimination in the workplace based on sexuality and gender identity. They will be deciding whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes discrimination by an employer based on race, religion, and sex illegal, should also protect LGBTQ people. Before this act, it was legal to fire someone, pay them less, or treat them worse because they were black, or a woman, etc. Today, gay and transgender people can still legally be fired if their boss "disagrees with their lifestyle," or whatever the excuse is. The Court will only be hearing three cases, two of which are about gay men being fired due to their sexuality and one which concerns a transgender woman being fired over her gender identity. Hopefully it can be ensured that everyone is protected at least by law from discrimination in the workplace.
This is crazy they can get fired because of their "lifestyles". If the saying is that everyone is to be treated equal than this shouldn't be ok.
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