Saturday, July 21, 2018

Use of Pseudonyms in Court

Can you bring your complaint of discrimination using a pseudonym, instead of your name, to avoid having your name forever enshrined in the lawbooks as trans? In Doe v. City of Detroit, the federal court says yes. The City, of course, argued that she had already identified herself as trans to co-workers and management, so there's no secret to keep and no right to a pseudonym. But the court dismissed this argument, noting that "the general public is not necessarily aware that Doe is transgender." It continued: "While she publicly identifies as female, the fact that she previously presented as male, and had a procedure to reassign her gender, certainly qualifies as information 'of the utmost intimacy.'" https://ift.tt/2mvwzro

See this link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10011716866775200071&hl=en&lr=lang_en&as_sdt=3%2C33&as_vis=1&oi=scholaralrt&hist=FkrvPKsAAAAJ%3A17837388646736399155%3AAAGBfm0w8JijtaXupRq0TPkHHb0hYf0Y3Q