A transgender fire chief is suing the small Georgia city that fired her less than 18 months after she began coming to work as a woman.
Mason Caminiti talks to “Nightline” about struggling with his identity and getting into his love of body building.SAVANNAH, Ga. -- A transgender fire chief has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the small Georgia city where she led the fire department for more than a decade, then was fired 18 months after she began coming to work as a woman.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has treated LGBT-based job discrimination cases as illegal sex discrimination since 2013. The could end if the U.S. Supreme Court decides firings and harassment based on a worker's sexual orientation or gender identity don't qualify as sex discrimination under the Civil Rights Act.A city of about 4,500 in a farming region outside Macon, Byron hired Mosby as its fire marshal in 2007.
“They didn’t want somebody like me in that position, or any position with the city,” Mosby told The Associated Press in a September interview. Hayes cited three reasons for Mosby’s firing in her termination letter: that she was responsible for a backlog of business licenses awaiting approval; that she attended only five classes at a recent fire chief’s conference, wasting the city’s money; and that she failed to maintain certification as an arson investigator.
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