In what appears to be part of a new wave of employment discrimination suits involving transgenders, San Francisco attorney Waukeen McCoy is suing an international engineering firm on behalf of a pre-operative female who was forced out of her job. The suit is the latest to take advantage of a 2004 amendment to California's Fair Employment and Housing Act that explicitly protects transgender employees. Nationally, transgenders are having more luck making their case in federal court under Title VII.
April 25, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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In what appears to be part of a new wave of employment discrimination suits involving transgenders, San Francisco attorney Waukeen McCoy is suing an international engineering firm on behalf of a 44-year-old pre-operative female who was forced out of her job.
Danielle Ryan worked as an IT systems analyst with Parsons Brinckerhoff in Sacramento for a decade before she began her shift from male to female, the suit alleges.
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