Supreme Court rules that employees cannot be fired for being gay or transgender

The United States Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling on Monday, June 15, 2020 that held employees cannot be fired due to their status as Gay or Transgender. The ruling effectively creates a new class of protected employees under their sexual or gender identity.

The opinion, authoried by Neal Gorsuch, stated partly that “”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,”.

The ruling was seen as a win for the LBGTQ+ community that previously did not have these protections.

You can read the full opinion by clicking Here