The Supreme Court has ruled that federal civil rights law protects LGBTQ workers, a loss for the Trump administration. The landmark ruling extends discrimination protections to millions of works nationwide by contending that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination based on sex, includes gender identity and sexual orientation. “An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the 6-3 decision. “Sex plays a necessary and undistinguishable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids…[A]n employer who discriminates on these grounds inescapably intends to rely on
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