Transgender Wells Fargo Worker’s Texas Bias Law Claims Too Late

A transgender former Wells Fargo Bank NA employee who says supervisors refused to use his preferred pronouns and otherwise discriminated against him waited too long to sue under Texas law, a federal judge in Dallas ruled.

According to Lee Ryan, he timely exhausted his administrative rights under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act by filing a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission within 300 days of his Oct. 11, 2018, termination.

But federal precedent indicates that Ryan still had to satisfy Texas’ narrower, 180-day window for filing a bias charge in order to sue under the TCHRA, the ...