EEOC Settles Transgender Bias Case That Went to High Court (1)

A federal civil rights agency and a Michigan funeral home settled for $250,000 a transgender discrimination lawsuit that ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which held earlier this year that federal anti-bias protections extend to LGBT workers.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the settlement with R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes on Tuesday. It brings to a close one of the EEOC’s first lawsuits alleging discrimination against a transgender worker, filed in 2016 when it wasn’t clear whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers were protected under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

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