Pritzker Campaign Clear of Transgender Ex-Staffer’s Bias Lawsuit

A transgender woman lacked triable evidence that the 2018 campaign of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) included her in a staff layoff because of her sex, a federal judge in Chicago ruled.

Emma Todd said the decision to terminate her in the post-primary staff downsizing was at odds with her strong performance metrics, which in some measures were the best in her region and among the highest in JB for Governor’s 34 offices statewide. Her discharge really was engineered by her boss, Raynal Sands, who harbored animus over Todd’s gender identity and influenced the six senior staffers who decided who ...