Transgender Northrop Grumman Worker Lacks Disability Bias Claim

A Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. field engineer who was transitioning genders can’t sue for disability bias based on a new manager’s alleged attempt to derail his career, the Northern District of Alabama ruled.

John Doe says his new manager at Northrop Grumman’s Way facility in Hunstville, Ala., denied his request to deploy overseas and sought to transfer him out of the Air Defense Airspace Management Systems Division because of his “rapidly developing female characteristics” and transitioning status. Doe says in his lawsuit he is a “formerly transitioning transgender individual.” He continues to use the masculine pseudonym in all pleadings, according ...