Transgender Lieutenant’s Pronoun Bias Case Revived by 11th Cir.

A transgender male corrections officer demonstrated that he suffered intentional and repeated misgendering by supervisors and co-workers at the Georgia Department of Corrections, a federal appeals court found.

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled Thursday that the statements made about Tyler Copeland’s gender identity and his preferred pronoun were sufficiently severe or pervasive to give rise to an objectively hostile work environment claim under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

“Copeland has put forward evidence sufficient to enable a reasonable jury to conclude that the harassment was severe,” Judge Jill A. Pryor wrote for ...