Posted on 02/02/2016 2:13:26 PM PST by wagglebee
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, February 2, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A judge has awarded $115,000 to a man whose employer did not let him use the women's bathroom.
Minnesota-based Deluxe Financial Services, the largest check printing company in the U.S., is paying the settlement and apologizing to a Mr. Austin, who now goes by the female name "Britney."
Mr. Austin was hired and employed as a man in the Phoenix offices of Deluxe, but in 2011, he announced to his supervisor that he considered himself a woman and began dressing as a female at work. His supervisor would not let him use the women's community bathroom, and, according to the lawsuit, co-workers "intentionally us[ed] the wrong gender pronouns to refer to" him. Deluxe also refused to change his name to "Britney" on company records, because he had not undergone cosmetic surgery to make himself appear female.
Austin also complained that Deluxe's health insurance for employees did not cover such surgery.
Terms of the settlement included Deluxe writing Mr. Austin a reference letter, paying for transgender care in its health insurance for employees, creating a written policy against transgender "discrimination," conducting training sessions every year for all employees against transgender "discrimination," and annual accountability reports to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) showing compliance with settlement terms.
The Obama EEOC brought the lawsuit. EEOC attorney David Lopez explained that the Obama administration is committed to "securing the rights of transgender individuals," and "[w]e hope that employers will take notice and begin to take proactive steps to prevent and eliminate discrimination against their transgender workers."
"This is an example of Obama bullying companies into embracing the trans agenda," Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth told LifeSiteNews. "Obama has stacked the EEOC."
This is the third lawsuit filed by the Obama EEOC supporting the delusions of gender-confused individuals. Most have been cases where the employer concedes and settles out of court. A Florida eye clinic was forced to pay $150,000 in April 2015 to a man who wants to be called a woman, and another similar Obama EEOC lawsuit is pending against a Detroit funeral home.
"Our concern is that these social issues are not even being discussed in this election cycle," LaBarbera added. "Perhaps these transgender rulings can be reversed when we have an administration with some sanity to it, but we have to talk about these things. Where is the debate on this in the public square?"
"I think they overwhelmed us," LaBarbera said, "and they are trying to do all they can before Obama's term is over."
The words the Obama EEOC uses to describe both the lawsuits and the transgender plaintiffs are significant. The district EEOC director in Phoenix, Rayford O. Irvin, described employers' refusal to allow men in women's community bathrooms as "being forced to face the indignity and danger of using a restroom inconsistent with [Mr. Austin's] gender identity."
Irvin describes natural gender as "subscrib[ing] to sex stereotypes" and states that the concerns of all non-transgender employees are irrelevant. "Employee and customer preferences based on stereotypes [sic] are not a legitimate reason to discriminate."
>> They don’t even need to work, just sue people for a living.
... just sue people for taking a leak.
It’s insane.
If God doesn’t take out this country, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
It would be sweet if the company let it be known that annual bonuses would not be forthcoming because of this unexpected expenditure. Shunning can be very effective, I’ve heard.
“The Obama EEOC brought the lawsuit”
WRONG,WRONG,WRONG!
CONGRESS ALLOWED THE ADMINISTRATION TO DO THIS!!
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR
No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!
CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.†http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
This employer is missing an easy bet.
1) Get a group of “reliable” women who work for the company. Have them each file complaints with the company and, after several such complaints, the police, that the tranny “harassed, menaced, and exposed his genitals at them in the women’s restroom.”
2) Create a paper trail indicative of this guy being a sexual predator. Officially counsel him (while discreetly video recording him) to stop harassing the women in the restroom. He will be on tape denying everything and accusing the women of hating him.
3) Something which may or may not work is to get one of the women to wear a discreet GoPro camera with audio, and when he is particularly upset, he might go off on her in the restroom. While this doesn’t prove everything it goes a long way to destroying his credibility.
4) Then when he tries to sue the company, the women counter sue as a group. So not only does he lose, he is now known as a tranny sexual predator. Instead of easy money, he is out on the street for good.
There is one thing missing from this post and that is the name of the Judge. I catalog the names of these judges for election time. Crud like this judge should be voted against in any future election.
This case completely twists what is. When a person is born male, they will die male no matter how bad they mutilate his body in the meantime. He can insist on being called she, but everybody will still know he is male with male body chemisty.
I used to work at Deluxe Check Printers in California on the night shift some 20 years ago. They would hold meetings for an hour every Wednesday. It was very boring as it was not just on printing checks but PC stuff. They ran the place with back stabbing informers. The supervisor I had had been a plant manager on days at another location but was demoted where he made everyone miserable if he could each night.
The nice thing about the place was they paid 15% more for the night shift and had profit sharing. I left with $34,000 after just 6.5 years then went into computer support.
We knew this sick legislation would end up paying out big bucks to those who sue for discrimination.
Cross dress and sue. Sounds like a career plan.
Obviously you had more class than she did and you left. By doing so, you also eliminated any basis for her to sue. She’d have to prove anything unsavory happened, and I don’t think she could have.
The high suicide rate among people with this mental illness usually bothers me, since they are human, just deluded. In this case, since he’s a predatory thug who uses government force to rob his employer, I’ll applaud if he decides to end his misery.
Actually, she left about 15 years before I did. She was such a dolt she was memorable.
You’re right though. I lead a boys outdoor adventure group. We’re part of Trail Life USA. As the leader, I get to do a little short devotional at every meeting. This week I shared a Mark Twain quote and complementary Bible verse about doing the right thing.
One point I made was that when you strive to do right and accidently do something wrong that it sticks out as being unusual and out of character.
Pervs a poppin’..
A lot of transdressers still have not only the parts they were born with, but the drive that goes with them. Letting those mental cases in the restroom with women poses direct risk to the women. I would refuse to use a restroom that he was occupying. If there was only one restroom available to female employees where I worked, the atmosphere could get a little thorny in that company. I will only tolerate so much abuse and a homo/trans/whatever peeing in the stall next to me is going too far. No job is worth risking my personal safety.
This idiot judge AND the idiot EEOC lawyer have addresses.
Just saying.
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It’s getting close to the time to remove some judges from office.
So why aren’t female employees utilizing the “hostile work environment” theme?
Sure - many women want to be seen as tolerant and “progressive” but start invading our bathrooms? It’s going to get ugly.
this is something new and the list of possible illegalities ???
You just mentioned one and there are others..
Please, watch your language. After all, he is still our President.
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