behalf. now the trump administration switching sides and throwing amy under the bus so doj was filing the lawsuit on amy s behalf, saying that the federal law doesn t allow you to do this, and then trump came in and switched the sides of the doj? exactly. the doj and the equal employment commission agreed that title vii protects workers who are fired simply because they re transgender. now they ve switched sides, essentially making a series of arguments that did not work very well today. so their first argument is essentially, it s fine if we fire transgender women, as long as we also fire transgender men. somehow they said this is their equality the equality idea, like, you can t discriminate, but you can fire them all. yes, exactly. any kindergartner can tell you, two wrongs don t make a right. if you think about what it means to be transgender, it s inherently based on the person s sex. the very definition of what it means to be transgender is someone whose gender id
it was the federal government that filed this lawsuit on amy s behalf. now the trump administration switching sides and throwing amy under the bus so doj was filing the lawsuit on amy s behalf, saying that the federal law doesn t allow you to do this, and then trump came in and switched the sides of the doj? exactly. the doj and the equal employment commission agreed that title vii protects workers who are fired simply because they re transgender. now they ve switched sides, essentially making a series of arguments that did not work very well today. so their first argument is essentially, it s fine if we fire transgender women, as long as we also fire transgender men. somehow they said this is their equality the equality idea, like, you can t discriminate, but you can fire them all. yes, exactly. any kindergartner can tell you, two wrongs don t make a right. if you think about what it means to be transgender, it s inherently based on the person s sex. the very definitio
tell us her story. amy stevens was a valued employee. she worked for six years as a funeral director and an embalmer at a funeral home in michigan. after that time, amy realized, she could no longer hide who she was. she had known since she was a young girl that she s a woman and she spent many months carefully crafting a letter to her boss that she is, in fact, a transgender woman and she would be returning to work after vacation as her true self, amy. and after her boss received that boss, two weeks later was fired. the reason, because the person he believed to be a man, was in fact a transgender woman. the government s argument today is that that s fine. whatever you think about it personally, that federal civil rights law and particularly protections against sex discrimination at work simply don t apply to amy or don t apply to folks that tell their bosses they re gay and lesbian and get fired for it. that s exactly right. and the trump administration s position in this case
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