Liberty U. Hit With Queries on Race in Trans Worker Bias Row (1)

Judges tasked with evaluating when religious entities can fire workers for discriminatory reasons pressed Liberty University on how it could legally force out transgender people without paving the way for race bias.

The private evangelical Christian school urged the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to shut down the sex bias lawsuit of a worker who lost her job after she told Liberty she was transitioning. The case, heard Tuesday in Richmond, Va., joins a crowded field of workplace disputes wrestling with protections for LGBTQ+ workers and the rights of coworkers or employers with religious objections to transgender ...