Florida attorney Jennifer Vasquez represents several Christian employees in religious discrimination cases against their companies (Courtesy of Campbell, Trohn, Tamayo & Aranda law firm)
Posted on 06/10/2023 7:42:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A software engineer fired for putting “Assigned By God” as the preferred pronoun on his employee profile has filed a civil rights lawsuit against his company.
Florida attorney Jennifer Vasquez represents several Christian employees in religious discrimination cases against their companies (Courtesy of Campbell, Trohn, Tamayo & Aranda law firm)
Chard Scharf was fired by the software company Bitwarden, an online storage service for sensitive information. Scharf served as Vice President of Software Engineering at the Jacksonville, Florida, location.
The lawsuit alleges that Bitwarden violated Scharf’s Title VII rights against religious discrimination by allowing other employees to post preferred pronouns on their employee profiles, but prohibiting Scharf from using his preferred pronoun based on his religious beliefs.
“Had Chad set aside his religious beliefs and acquiesced to Bitwarden’s promotion of gender ideology, he would not have been fired,” Scharf’s attorney Jennifer Vasquez told The Epoch Times, “which means his religious beliefs were the cause of his termination.” Vasquez is with the Florida law firm Campbell, Trohn, Tamayo & Aranda.
Neither Bitwarden nor its attorney B. Tyler White of Jackson & Lewis, responded to multiple inquiries from The Epoch Times about Scharf’s lawsuit. The company has not yet filed a response to the federal complaint.
“Bitwarden violated Title VII when it placed Mr. Scharf into a disfavored class by promoting its gender ideology, when it failed to approve his reasonable request for accommodation, and when it terminated his employment,” the lawsuit states.
According to the lawsuit, Scharf was repeatedly pressured to add his preferred pronouns to his Slack employee profile under his company’s “inclusivity initiative.” Slack is a platform utilized for intra company communication.
When Scharf added “Assigned By God” to his employee profile page, he was told to remove it, his complaint alleges.
Scharf, a Catholic, told his company he would not participate in its request to choose preferred pronouns because it was part of a gender ideology that went against his religious beliefs.
He told Bitwarden executives that it was his belief that there are only two sexes and “that gender cannot be changed, chosen, or manipulated,” and that it was the company discriminating against him for failing to accommodate his beliefs.
Vasquez said correspondence shows that the company pushed the completion of the gender field on his employee profile and not Scharf.
According to the lawsuit, two employees in the company’s human resources department complained that they felt harassed by Scharf’s religious statements.
Scharf was also reprimanded for not using the preferred pronouns in notes based on an interview he conducted of a job application whose preferred pronouns were different from their biological gender. In the lawsuit, Scharf claims he avoided using any pronouns during the interview and that he only used the applicant’s biological pronouns in internal notes.
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I am a biological male identifying as a female who identifies as a male.
How would I put that on an application?
Or amend Rush Limbaugh
With talent (and genitalia) on load from God
How could any third party possibly determine that you are not of the ethnic or racial background which you claim?!
Do they, e.g., have access to your DNA?! And/or can they demand that you undergo a DNA test?
Besides, some ethnic groups (e.g., Latino) are purely cultural/linguistic - so how can they fault you for saying that you "feel" like you are actually a Bushman, if you've always "felt" more kinship with the Hottentots than with your lard-white, Lutheran parents?
Regards,
There ARE hermaphrodites. They are few and far between but they do exist.
“The true hermaphrodite has both testicular and ovarian tissues present in either the same or opposite gonads. Both the external genitalia and the internal duct structures display gradations between male and female. … Two-thirds of true hermaphrodites are raised as males.” [https://www.caniry.com/how-common-is-hermaphrodite-in-humans/]
The renaming of Personnel yo Human Resources was just the first step in destroying the person.
And Human Resources has long been where those with a social change agenda worm their way into power.
HR is also mostly for people who can’t make it in STEM and don’t have the drive and personality for sales .
I must be living in hole, because I only first saw the preferred pronouns in an email signature a couple of weeks ago. Had no idea it had gone that far. FWIW, my personal pronouns (not really pronouns) are “Sir” or “Your Lord and Master”.
These people are intersex. Probably by absorbing their fraternial twin in the womb. They are sterile.
Looks like he has a case.
If we are in the room together, I will revert to “Your Grace” in order to avoid confusion.
Dude knew inherently what they were cookin’, how to position himself perfectly to avoid compromising his deeply-held beliefs, and what he would do when what was inevitable, eventually happened.
prepare now and be willing to take action and pay the cost.
I like the way you think!
My pronoun is “your Y-ness”.
If my workplace requires me to do pronouns, maybe I’ll put down “bong” and “huffer.”
Hermaphroditism is incredibly in humans but it does happen.
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Not someone with a birth defect but a true hermaphrodite that is fully fertile both ways.
You can't because no matter what they do, and believe me they have tried, the amount of hormones that are needed to make a fertile female result in the male reproductive system being rendered infertile and vise versa.
Intersex happens in mammals. Hermaphrodite does not.
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