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“We are terminating you for ‘denying biological and chromosomal sex assigned at birt
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.’” That’s what a transgender woman alleges HR told her when she was fired from her job at a religious university. In response, she sued for sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. In Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court made clear that discrimination based on gender identity is a form of unlawful sex discrimination under Title VII. However, the Court left open the question of whether religious exe
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ptions could apply. A federal judge in Virginia just weighed in, and the answer—at