A Michigan woman who in October had her case questioning whether federal law protected transgender individuals from being discriminated against heard by the U.S. Supreme Court died Tuesday.
became the first of its kind to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, died Tuesday. She was 59.
Freedom for All Americans, an advocacy group for LBGTQ individuals based in Washington, D.C., noted that Stephens' was the first-ever transgender civil rights case to be heard by the court.Ex-funeral home worker’s case going to Supreme Court, raising question whether 1964 law covers gender identity No cause for Stephen's death was given, though she suffered kidney failure in 2014 and had been on dialysis three times a week when the Free Press spoke to her in 2019.Stephens, who was a biologically assigned male at birth, confronted her boss at R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Home in Garden City in 2013, saying in a letter she wished to begin dressing as a woman at work after having done so outside of work for some time.
Her lawyers argued that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination against transgender people, even if that legislation doesn't specifically mention transgender individuals. They argued that under that law, the Supreme Court has ruled in the past against the use of sex stereotypes in employment actions and that, as such, an employer shouldn't be able to sack someone for not conforming to their notions of gender distinctions.
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