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Labor/Employment

May 21, 2016

Transgender discrimination lawsuit wave anticipated

The focus of an Obama administration directive that federal anti-sex discrimination laws apply to transgender people has been on bathroom use, but experts say campuses and employers likely will face other issues soon.

By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The focus of an Obama administration directive that federal anti-sex discrimination laws apply to transgender people has been on bathroom use, but experts say campuses and employers likely will face other issues soon.

Illona Turner, legal director of the Transgender Law Center in Oakland, called accommodation of transgender people in workplaces, "One of the last remaining areas of discriminati...

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