Disability Bias Ruling for Transgender Worker: Boon or Blip?

Transgender workers may have protections under federal disability law that go beyond and supplement the rights that seem to be emerging under federal sex discrimination law.

That’s the upshot of a federal judge’s novel recognition that Cabela’s Retail Inc. may have violated a male-to-female transgender employee’s rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act when it repeatedly denied her choice of workplace name tag and restroom, LGBT-rights advocates told Bloomberg BNA.

A pair of management lawyers, however, cautioned that it’s still early in the case. Kate Lynn Blatt ultimately will have to present evidence proving her entitlement to ADA coverage and ...