Aimee Stephens was fired from her job at a Michigan funeral home after she came out as trans. The Supreme Court will hear her case on Oct. 8.
Stephens took her complaint to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which agreed to sue the company. During the Obama years, the EEOC had changed its longstanding interpretation of civil rights law to include discrimination against LGBTQ people. The law's Title 7 prohibits discrimination because of sex, but has no specific protection for sexual orientation or gender identity.
The funeral home appealed, and the justices agreed to hear the case. Appeals courts in Chicago and New York issued similar rulings bringing sexual orientation under the rights law, while the appeals court in Atlanta declined to do so. The justices also will weigh in on that issue. Rost declined an interview request, but his lawyer described him as a caring man whose service to clients is paramount.
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