Posted on 08/24/2019 11:32:24 AM PDT by simpson96
An African American transgender woman in the Chicago area is suing national convenience store chain Circle K, alleging she was fired from one of its stores and retaliated against after reporting co-workers' use of racial and transphobic slurs against her.
Judi Brown claims in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois that a manager and other Circle K employees at the store in Bolingbrook, Illinois, harassed her based on her race and being transgender.
Brown, 26, said she was fired after she complained about the alleged discrimination.
The discrimination and harassment were traumatizing and needed to be called out," Brown said in a press release by the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing her. "It was not fair.
The lawsuit comes a week after the Trump administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that transgender workers are not protected by civil rights laws.
In Illinois, the state's Human Rights Act includes specific protections for employees on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation, the ACLU said in its release.
When Brown worked as a Circle K cashier from May 2016 to June 2017, a store manager asked her "offensive and sexually explicit questions" about her romantic partners, sexual and reproductive anatomy and her plans for sexual reassignment surgery, the lawsuit claims.
She also alleges that a manager refused to refer to her by her chosen name in company documents and that another co-worker sometimes used male pronouns to refer to her and called her a man in a dress.
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News media puts it out there as fact, that this is a woman. *facepalm*
These drama Ka-Weens just love to sue.
A man in a dress is in fact a man in a dress.
But...but... you ARE a man in a dress...
What makes her a trans woman? Being a man in a dress is the answer.
Scurry back to the closet Francine...and stay there.
transphobic?
Well, I am idiotphobic and keeping a list.....of idiots. Needless to say it is a LONG list....
transphobic?
Well, I am idiotphobic and keeping a list.....of idiots. Needless to say it is a LONG list....
Democrats chose Truth over facts.
It *IS* a man in a dress. NOTHING, but NOTHING will change that. It will NEVER smell like a woman, no matter what. It will NEVER be a woman, no matter what hormones it takes or butchery it hires on itself.
So he refused to show up for his shift.....not unusual at all for no shows to be fired....if it's not authorized you have to be there. Attending a gay parade is not an excuse.
Yep - a man in a dress.
Anytime you she one of these mainstream media articles calling these guys “her/she” you know you’re in for some B.S.
So actually this troubled person is a mentally ill male transvestite.
He look more femme than Michael Obama....
Unless he has a deep baritone voice then not sure how he could be confused for Michael Obama..
Carrying a bat and two balls does never mean you are home plate
so this man was called a man in a dress- which he is, and he’s offended? Act like a looney- get called out for being a looney- pretty simple premise- don’t want people stating the truth? Then don’t act weird i n the first place-
This is not a story about a ‘SHE’- it’s a about a “HE” notl inking people stating the truth!
why would he have to tell anybody anything?
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