ATLANTA (AP)-- A federal judge has ruled in favor of a former Georgia state legislative aide who claimed she was fired after telling her boss she would come to work dressed as woman as she transitioned from man to woman.
U.S. District Judge Richard W. Story ruled Friday that Vandy Beth Glenn's firing violated her constitutional rights under the Equal Protection Clause.
Glenn is a transgender woman formerly known as Glenn Morrison. She claimed that Legislative Counsel Sewell Brumby fired her from her job as a legislative editor because the gender transition would make her colleagues feel uncomfortable and would be seen as "immoral" by Georgia lawmakers.
Brumby told The Associated Press Tuesday he had no comment on the ruling.
That was interesting, Donna.. And its why I use uni-sex restrooms when ever possible.. I thought it was funny that the guy that showed up to work on halloween in a bunny costume was deemed to be inappropriate but he wasn't asked to go home like Glenn was! Can't wait till they rule on compensation!
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A federal appeals court panel today upheld a lower court ruling that Georgia transgender woman Vandy Beth Glenn was illegally fired from her job as a legislative editor in the Georgia General Assembly after she informed her employer she planned to transition from male to female.
"The question here is whether discriminating against someone on the basis of his or her gender non-conformity constitutes sex-based discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause. …We hold that it does," the three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. Judge Rosemary Barkett wrote the opinion for the unanimous panel.
Ah yes the old bathroom bugaboo. Really sort of indicative of the massive dysfunction our society has about so many different things.
I read in Dear Abby the other day about some woman saying she saw a man take his three year old daughter into the mens room. She told the man she would take his daughter to the ladies room for him and he declined. She didn't understand why a man didn't want to entrust his daughter to a complete stranger like that. She thought that the girl being in the bathroom with perhaps other men while with her father would be more traumatic than being in the womans room with other women and a total stranger.
here's the wierd thing. Okay it makes perfect sense given our societies dysfunction. I've belonged to two different gyms over the years. In both cases they had one person who cleaned the locker rooms. It was always a woman because you could have a woman clean the mens locker (we were always quite pleasant to her and anyone bothering her would have had to deal with the other men) but you could not have a man clean the womens locker. We can carry the dysfunction to another level and note that these were always minority women, but I'm sure it would have been okay to have poor white women also cleaning the locker rooms.
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everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
yeah, that's wierd, and so convlouted I can't see any logic. Poor or minority women can be left alone in a room full of naked men and it's ok, but a roomful of naked women can't manage to protect each other from a single poor minority man. Or presumably the only man who would take such a job must necessarily be a sexual predator, it's not logical to suppose he would take the job because he needed money to pay bills. This whole political correctness has gotten so complicated I can't keep track of it all.
Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman who lost her legislative editor job with the Georgia Office of Legislative Counsel, is back at work now after an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that her termination violated her civil rights.
