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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My son is fairly liberal on a lot of this stuff, but he says transgenders are among the most obnoxious people he’s ever met. They get in your face about EVERYTHING.
TMI
Barry signaling that
“He’s Hit It!”
Ssssshhh.
“African American transgender woman”. That’s the Super Protected Class Trifecta.
These people are walking liability suits.
why doesn’t HE lift his skirt and prove to everyone HE is a Woman??
Your post made me laugh. Ten, twenty years ago would you have thought you’d have to post that comment?
“An African American transgender woman”. I’m not certain that I want to go on. :)
Ahhhhhh, the rest of the story.
Big mike has a tucking problem.
Know of one instance where a an amazingly toxic minority tranny who really knew how to play the Identity politics PC sacred cow game stirred up so much chaos and was so detrimental to organizational morale and effectiveness that he/she went on paid leave of absence and continued pulling a full paycheck for not showing up for an astounding number of years.
Probably still doing so to this day.
Welcome to the brave new world
Yes, man in a dress.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. But man in a dress just the same.
Once they get it, it’s hard to get rid of them, no matter if they set on their asses and do nothing!
Should I sue?
A man in a dress is in fact a man in a dress.
Probably wearing make-up! Sometimes you have an ugly man in a dress which makes an ugly woman..
The truth is a crime
Her manager should have agreed to call it by it’s chosen name, and it should have agreed to call the manager by his chosen name. Something like ‘Your Highness’ or ‘Massa’. That’s only fair.
If it looks like a duck....
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