Trans Surgery Case Will Test Scope of Workplace Anti-Bias Law

The scope of workplace rights that the US Supreme Court extended to transgender people in a watershed 2020 decision will get a new gloss at oral arguments at the Eleventh Circuit Tuesday, according to attorneys following the case.

All the court’s active judges will consider the issue, which is part of a litigation trend over the rights of transgender people in various aspects of life.

But this is an easy Title VII sex discrimination case, said Shayna Medley, senior litigation counsel at Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund, one of the groups representing plaintiff Anna Lange. The US Court of ...