U.S. Supreme Court bars workplace discrimination, gays and trans are protected under civil right act

WHAT WAS TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, 1964?

• The Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
• The case involved two plaintiffs who were fired by their employers after revealing that they were gay, and a transgender individual who was terminated from her job after revealing her gender identity to her boss.
• The legal fight focused on the definition of "sex" in the TITLE VII.
• The Justices decided that gays and transgender people are protected under TITLE VII of the Civil Rights Act, 1964.

WHAT WERE THE FACTS OF THE CASE? 

• "An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex," Gorsuch wrote.
• The cases were brought by three workers who said they were fired from their jobs because they were gay or transgender. They argued that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which says that employers may not discriminate based on “sex,” also applies to sexual orientation and gender identity. 
• “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law,” Justice Neil M. Gorsuch 
• Until Monday’s decision, it was legal in more than half of the states to fire workers for being gay, bisexual or transgender. The vastly consequential decision thus extended workplace protections to millions of people across the nation.

WHY IT MATTERS?

• Before today's ruling, only about half of U.S. states had comprehensive laws that protect people from being fired based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
• The 6-3 opinion marks a huge win for LGBT rights in a court with a clear conservative tilt. It was authored by conservative justice Neil Gorsuch, who was joined by the courts more liberal and swing members.
• An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of different sex. Sex plays an important and undisguisable role the decision, exactly what TITLE VII Forbids.​

DO YOU THINK THAT SUCH JUDGEMENTS A BIG WIN? 

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