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The plaintiffs in the LGBT rights cases SCOTUS accepted today are seeking to have the court expand its landmark 1989 ruling that held it's illegal to discriminate against an employee based on his/her non-conformance to gender stereotypes.
An employer's negative views of sexual orientation and/or transgender identity, they argue, are based on stereotypical gender-based expectations, about how a man or woman should behave/appear. The court ruled in 1989 that such "sex stereotyping" discrimination violates the law.
There is, however, no federal law that bans employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Past efforts to pass such a law have fizzled over the decades.
Past efforts to pass such a law have fizzled over the decades.
The lead plaintiff is a Georgia man who served as a juvenile court employee in deep blue Clayton County. He claims he was fired in 2013 after officials found out he was on a gay softball league. (They accused him of misspending court money.)
Lower courts threw out his case.
Lower courts threw out his case.
