BTW..does anyone know if substitute teachers in this school district get medical benefits? I'd suspect that they do, and that's why he/she took the job a few years ago..to get covered for this...I'd wager the school district's medical plan paid the whole shebang..which has to have cost several hundred thousand $$$$$..
Could be ...
BARF ALERT
"In July 2001, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey determined that denying employment to a transgender person amounts to sexual discrimination. The court determined that the hospital, West Jersey Health Systems, violated the law when it fired a transgender employee.
"You can't discriminate against a man for not living up to the stereotype of what a man is supposed to be," said Ed Barocas, legal director for the ACLU of New Jersey.
Deborah Jacobs, executive director of ACLU of New Jersey, said while the issue is settled law, more explicit language is needed in the state's Law Against Discrimination. Clearer language will give better direction to businesses or small town governments unfamiliar with case law, she said.
McBeth said she was never a full-time teacher, but that she began working as a substitute nine years ago after retiring from a career as a medical marketing executive.
Working first in Pennsylvania, she began substitute teaching in this area about five years ago after moving to Little Egg, and has worked in the Pinelands Regional and Little Egg Harbor school systems as well as Eagleswood.
http://www.gaypasg.org/GayPASG/PressClippings/2006/Feb/Substitute%20teacher%20defends%20sex-change%20decision.htm