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In the past week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has brought two lawsuits against employers that allegedly violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against transgender employees.
In one of the lawsuits, the EEOC claims that a transgender employee complained that she believed a manager had outed her to other employees. Consequently, coworkers misgendered her, prompting a customer to make an offensive comment using both an LGBTQ+ slur and a racial slur. This prompted the employee to complain again. However, this time, a manager took her badge, which the EEOC alleges was tantamount to firing