Former Amazon Security Officer Can Advance Anti-Trans Bias Suit

Amazon.com Services LLC and New Jersey-based Metro One Loss Prevention Services Group Inc. must continue to defend against a suit alleging the companies harassed and discriminated against a transgender former security officer, a federal district court said.

Ciani Lashay Freeman adequately alleged the companies violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, by connecting alleged mistreatment by her coworkers beyond simple teasing—such as slurs and hair pulling—to a protected status, Judge Zahid N. Quraishi said. His unpublished opinion Monday in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey denied the companies’ motions to dismiss.

Freeman said she started working ...