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Transgender fire chief files discrimination suit over firing
ABC "News" / Disney ^ | April 29, 2020 | By RUSS BYNUM

Posted on 04/29/2020 12:29:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- A transgender fire chief has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the small Georgia city where she led the fire department for more than a decade, then was fired 18 months after she began coming to work as a woman.

Rachel Mosby says her firing last summer by the city of Byron not only cost her wages and retirement benefits, but also tarnished her reputation. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Macon says city officials fired Mosby “based on her sex, gender identity, and notions of sex stereotyping.”

A city of about 4,500 in a farming region outside Macon, Byron hired Mosby as its fire marshal in 2007. The city established its first professional fire department a few months later and promoted Mosby to fire chief in January 2008.

The lawsuit says Mosby spent years growing the department, obtaining grants to pay for equipment and improving its rating, which insurers use to help assess a community’s fire risk.

Mosby started coming to work as a woman in January 2018, more than a year after she began a medical transition. At first, city hall colleagues and administrators were supportive, she said, but it didn’t last long.

After making her transition public, Mosby said, she was ordered to start wearing a uniform the first day she came to work in a skirt. Previously, Mosby often wore suits and ties. Some city officials insisted on referring to her using male pronouns, according to the lawsuit. When Mosby fired a reserve firefighter who called the chief a slur to her face, the firefighter appealed and was reinstated by the city.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: byron; chat; chatforum; georgia; homosexualagenda; mentalillness; mosby; perverts; rachelmosby; transgender
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1 posted on 04/29/2020 12:29:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A crazy man, a culture run by lunatics ... throw in idiot lawyers ... mix well...


2 posted on 04/29/2020 12:32:26 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 posted on 04/29/2020 12:32:29 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

but also tarnished her reputation.


He tarnished his own reputation with deciding to identify and present himself to the world as a female, even though he’s male.

He brought that all on himself.


4 posted on 04/29/2020 12:32:46 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It was fired because it is 100% mentally unstable and therefore a danger to the department.


5 posted on 04/29/2020 12:33:20 PM PDT by Gerish (Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
IIRC SCOTUS has ruled that it's illegal to fire someone because of race,gender,etc...but it's *perfectly* legal to fire someone because that employer wants to hire someone who'll do the same work for lower pay...that is,because the person being fired is too expensive to keep.

My guess is that the town's lawyer knows this.

6 posted on 04/29/2020 12:33:32 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: Rurudyne

Yep, favored minorities, sexual deviants, etc., can never be incompetent. By virtue of their minoritiness they are better than you and me, smarter, morally superior, we should know that.


7 posted on 04/29/2020 12:34:50 PM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just Damn.

Byron is about 5 minute car ride from me.

Not surprised they don’t want to tolerate this BS.


8 posted on 04/29/2020 12:34:51 PM PDT by Conserv
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
A transgender fire chief has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the small Georgia city where he led the fire department for more than a decade, then was fired 18 months after he began coming to work as a woman. Mosby says his firing last summer by the city of Byron not only cost him wages and retirement benefits, but also tarnished his reputation.
9 posted on 04/29/2020 12:35:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Might be a good reason to not hire these perverts in the first place. Avoid the trouble by not hiring these mental cases with a big chip on their shoulder in the first place.


10 posted on 04/29/2020 12:36:08 PM PDT by Ron H. (Gab.com.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He could always be a lumberjack.


11 posted on 04/29/2020 12:36:54 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Paging Captain Obvious.

If I do a good job for a number of years and then decide to go on drunken benders nobody would give me any sympathy either.

Attention whoring has its price.

12 posted on 04/29/2020 12:37:24 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It tarnished its own ‘reputation’.


13 posted on 04/29/2020 12:37:43 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Randy Man is Butt Hurt! Film at 11.


14 posted on 04/29/2020 12:38:27 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Rurudyne

An “alphabet” wacko strikes again. I’m shocked he was shocked when he became a she.


15 posted on 04/29/2020 12:38:32 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

According to the article at least 3 reasons were cited for termination. They sounded legit to me. One was failure to maintain a certification. Pretty important stuff in the fire rescue game IMO.


16 posted on 04/29/2020 12:39:54 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s MA’AM!


17 posted on 04/29/2020 12:40:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
He was hired as a man.

If he is now pretending to be a woman, he used deceptive means to get hired and was not honest and forthright during the employment process.

18 posted on 04/29/2020 12:40:54 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Autonomous User

Biden should be bold for his VP pick ... and choose a 35 year old Japanse man who thinks he’s a 14 year old Loli girl.

Confused and Confuseder ‘20


19 posted on 04/29/2020 12:41:40 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: V_TWIN

OK,but he’s claiming “discrimination” so his focus will be...well,you know.


20 posted on 04/29/2020 12:43:44 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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