tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147959422024-03-07T21:49:41.832-05:00Trans Workplace Law & DiversityTHE LAW, POLITICS AND POLICY ISSUES OF TRANSGENDER
WORKPLACE DIVERSITYJillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comBlogger769125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-3488412393326502222021-10-01T05:38:00.016-04:002021-10-01T06:07:17.631-04:00This New York City litigator advocates for transgender rights and is teaching other lawyers how to do it, too<div style="text-align: left;">BY JENNY B. DAVIS</div><div>AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL<br />OCTOBER 1, 2021, 1:40 AM CDT<br /><br />As corporate America continues to publicly display the rainbow motif to promote its recognition of LGBTQ rights, the phone hasn’t stopped ringing at Weiss Law. Founded by Jillian T. Weiss, the three-lawyer, Brooklyn-based firm specializes in enforcing the civil rights of transgender people, especially in the area of employment law—and the fight is far from over.<br /><br />Luckily, Weiss is uniquely prepared to lead the charge: She co-authored Gender Identity and the Law, the first law school casebook on the subject. She also founded the National Trans Bar Association, and she served as executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund. Weiss helped litigate the first cases brought by the EEOC and the Department of Justice on behalf of transgender employees and has drafted transgender-friendly workplace policies for major corporations like Boeing—all after spending more than a decade as a college professor (she holds a PhD in law, policy and society). For Weiss, the fight isn’t just professional; it’s also personal. Weiss transitioned to living as female in the late ’90s and has faced many of the same types of discrimination that her clients continue to endure today.<br /><br />Q. Did you always want to be a lawyer—to be an advocate?<br /><br />A. No, I actually wanted to be a teacher.<br /><br />Read more: https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/this-new-york-city-litigator-advocates-for-transgender-rights-and-is-teaching-other-lawyers-how-to-do-it-too</div>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-2287506352764454602021-09-20T05:52:00.076-04:002021-10-01T06:07:30.812-04:00Judge Allows Gay Social Worker's Bias Suit to Proceed<div>U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla let stand a social worker's hostile work environment claim under the NYCHRL, which the judge noted has a looser standard of review than its state or federal counterparts, as well as his claims of termination because of sexual orientation under federal, state and city law. However, the judge dismissed his claims of unlawful retaliation for making complaints.</div><div><br /></div><div>The judge also dismissed claims alleging that he was subjected to a hostile work environment in violation of Title VII and the New York State Human Rights Law. </div><div><div><blockquote>Attorney Jillian Weiss, representing the plaintiff, said "While federal law stands idly by except for the most obvious hostility in the workplace, New York state and city law refuse to allow their workers to be treated differently because of who they are." </blockquote></div></div><div>Weiss noted that the New York State Human Rights Law has since changed to provide more robust protections. <br /><br />Judge Failla concluded that his supervisor's conduct, "even if occasionally insulting or even demeaning," didn't involve physical threats to Barney, was "not particularly severe," didn't create an abusive environment or meaningfully interfere with his work.</div><div><br /></div><div>Article: https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/1423501/judge-crops-gay-social-worker-s-bias-suit</div>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-7273756615721257202021-09-14T17:08:00.014-04:002021-10-01T06:08:03.589-04:00Transgender professor ordered reinstated with tenure at university in Oklahoma by federal court<h4 style="text-align: left;">A panel of three federal judges determined Rachel Tudor deserves her old job as a tenured-track professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.</h4><div>Sept. 14, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT<br />By Antonio Planas</div><div>NBC News<br /><br /><br />A transgender professor who was denied a promotion more than a decade ago must be reinstated with tenure at Southeastern Oklahoma State University because the school discriminated against her, a federal court ruled this week.<br /><br /><blockquote>"Dr. Tudor is looking forward to being the first tenured Native American professor in her department in the 100-plus year history of the Native American serving institution that is Southeastern Oklahoma State University," her attorney, Jillian T. Weiss, said in a statement.</blockquote><br />"As injurious as the sex discrimination and retaliation were to Dr. Tudor, she did not consider it merely personal. Rather, she was a symbol to those who discriminated against her,” the statement read. “They wanted to create an environment where certain views and certain people are punished to create fear and shame instead of self-confidence and opportunity for all. They wanted people like Dr. Tudor to be afraid, and to go away. Instead of going away, instead of accepting a settlement — conditioned on never teaching in Oklahoma — she fought for the rights and dignity of her Native and LGBT communities.”<br /><br />Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transgender-professor-ordered-reinstated-tenure-university-oklahoma-federal-court-n1279197</div>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-22223930230669045732021-06-11T06:19:00.019-04:002021-10-01T06:22:37.271-04:00NYSBA Member Spotlight: Jacqueline J. Drohan<h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Who are your heroes in the legal world?</b></h4><div>There are many! Judge Roselyn Richter was legal writing professor my law School and watching her career has influenced me greatly. She has overcome many obstacles and societal barriers to become Associate Justice of the New York State Appellate Division. Likewise, the late Judge Deborah Batts. She was the first openly gay African American female federal district court judge. </div><div><br /></div><blockquote><div>"As a practitioner, Jillian Weiss has been both model and mentor to me at many levels. "</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>She is a superbly competent advocate and has been a fearless voice at the national level for the civil rights of transgender and other LGBTQ employees, and our community generally.</div><div><br /></div><div>Read more: https://nysba.org/nysba-member-spotlight-jacqueline-j-drohan/</div>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-35094643873198037612021-05-21T06:11:00.001-04:002021-10-01T06:14:18.579-04:00T-Mobile Case Shows Transgender Workers Can Sue for Sex Discrimination—But With Burdensby Angela Morris<br />The Texas Lawyer<br /><br /><blockquote>Weiss, the plaintiff’s attorney, said that she is pleased the Fifth Circuit acknowledged that LGBTQ workers are protected under Title VII, but disappointed that the court didn’t scrutinize further whether Olivarez needed to allege facts about comparative employees.<br /><br />“Every other circuit and even some Fifth Circuit panels have said a comparator is not strictly required,” explained Weiss, who did not represent Olivarez in the trial court but was hired for the appeal. “The Fifth Circuit has ben very narrowly adhering to that as a requirement and all the other circuits have said you don’t absolutely need that. If you have it, it is great; if you have other facts that show discrimination, that is fine too.”</blockquote><p>Read more: https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2021/05/13/t-mobile-case-shows-transgender-workers-can-sue-for-sex-discrimination-but-with-burdens/?slreturn=20210901061130 </p>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-67408178088764730462021-05-08T06:15:00.011-04:002021-10-01T06:18:08.448-04:00A Sense of BelongingThe ruling was significant because many employers weren't certain what constitutes discrimination and often failed to give these complaints proper scrutiny, explains attorneyJillian Weiss, whose New York City law firm specializes in representing transgender clients in discrimination cases.<br /><br /><blockquote>"Now that we have Bostock, this has become like any workplace discrimination issue—you have two sides and you try to figure out what happens," she says. "But the idea that you're just not providing protection to these people is gone."</blockquote><br /><br /> Read more: https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/all-things-work/pages/a-sense-of-belonging.aspxJillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-64447470814775573492021-03-06T17:12:00.008-05:002021-10-01T06:09:13.694-04:00Transgender teacher claims discrimination at NYC’s Speyer Legacy School<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">She was hired to diversify a “progressive” private school, but a transgender teacher claims she faced months of rampant discrimination — culminating in a witchhunt by parents who claimed she was endangering kids in school bathrooms.</span></h1>In a lawsuit, the educator says her time at Speyer Legacy School, which was co-founded by Harry Belafonte’s daughter-in-law and costs $54,000 a year, was a “living nightmare” of discrimination.<br /><br /><blockquote>“Her goal is to ensure that no other transgender teachers at that school, or any school, will have to endure the emotional distress of giving their all for the children while being subjected to harassment for being true to themselves,” said Daniels’ attorney, Jillian Weiss.</blockquote><br /> Read more: https://nypost.com/2021/03/06/transgender-teacher-claims-discrimination-at-nycs-speyer-legacy-school/Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-40305028562189673132021-01-26T10:37:00.004-05:002021-01-26T10:37:49.685-05:00Biden is reversing Trump’s transgender military ban — but workplace discrimination remains a problem for LGBT Americans<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB7cZSyOE6SwPfgvNnRzHEkBDZH4v1PGoBmtH9vYA1ZPJZPQejrMUs7I2UbyklGbVxsJX0IvawEIqfWy0hycoUQZieakjijJk8RbeKwB4qt-r1WbEJ_eR9c31Zfbkzng9KvfaqIA/s1932/Screen+Shot+2021-01-26+at+10.33.11+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1510" data-original-width="1932" height="437" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB7cZSyOE6SwPfgvNnRzHEkBDZH4v1PGoBmtH9vYA1ZPJZPQejrMUs7I2UbyklGbVxsJX0IvawEIqfWy0hycoUQZieakjijJk8RbeKwB4qt-r1WbEJ_eR9c31Zfbkzng9KvfaqIA/w559-h437/Screen+Shot+2021-01-26+at+10.33.11+AM.png" width="559" /></a></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e2e2e; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Workplace discrimination can have a serious impact on transgender workers’ well-being, including their mental health.It is one of the reasons transgender individuals are twice as likely as the general population to be unemployed or to live in poverty, Jillian Weiss, the former executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund,<a class="icon none" href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/for-transgender-americans-workplace-discrimination-isnt-limited-to-the-military-2017-07-26" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 119, 168); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> told MarketWatch in 2017</a>.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e2e2e; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">“They have difficulty with finding housing and maintaining stability in their lives,” she said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e2e2e; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Click <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-is-reversing-trumps-transgender-military-ban-but-workplace-discrimination-remains-a-problem-for-lgbt-americans-11611600015" target="_blank">here</a> to read more.</span></p>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-57328474808362492652021-01-11T15:03:00.005-05:002021-01-11T15:06:21.264-05:00Gender Identity and the Law by David B. Cruz and Jillian T. Weiss is Hot Off the Press!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ipYkL_UC9dV1zj-OJXwdnM03Qkflrzzr2vCUhGQRIrjq4fytZgOJLiXsl6rEqjWzZFLLps1KlMvXAFkIqEiV-EgvcySSWa-c60eGUNy4m6n8MmSVTrDh0P3lmOYMyC7liixQmw/s2000/9781531015879.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1474" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ipYkL_UC9dV1zj-OJXwdnM03Qkflrzzr2vCUhGQRIrjq4fytZgOJLiXsl6rEqjWzZFLLps1KlMvXAFkIqEiV-EgvcySSWa-c60eGUNy4m6n8MmSVTrDh0P3lmOYMyC7liixQmw/s320/9781531015879.png" /></a></div><em style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; text-indent: 19.5px;"><br /></em><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><em style="text-indent: 19.5px;">Gender Identity and the Law</em><span style="text-indent: 19.5px;"> is the first law textbook to focus on the legal treatment of transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary individuals, primarily through U.S. materials but also incorporating legal developments in other parts of the world. The book will provide students with an understanding of the decades-long revolution in law and society regarding the concepts of gender identity and expression that affect trans people in numerous settings. From gender variation in the ancient world to contemporary conflicts such as the ban on military service by transgender persons, the book empowers students to address anti-trans prejudice and to help meet the needs of transgender persons.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.03); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Order now with 10% discount and free US shipping on orders over $50, and you can take a sneak peek <a href="https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531015879/Gender-Identity-and-the-Law" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></p>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-33541751807932636382020-11-30T10:54:00.001-05:002020-11-30T11:05:50.291-05:00TransTech Summit Thanks The Law Office of Jillian T. Weiss<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/485544283" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: xx-large;">Transtech Summit thanks The Law Office of Jillian T. Weiss, one of this year's gold sponsors for the TransTech Summit.</span></p>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-71378962225709049232020-11-17T16:12:00.005-05:002020-11-17T16:12:59.931-05:00Transgender Rights Case Back in Court During Trans Awareness Week<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6gBL67lPOuCyKkzwO2xsM5QbCPRoNx_8oXkmQSKFTKs_Ru9kfrQadwangeMkJbh8OBzrvzLtfTQsFdgwH9q65NzyOk_G9jAIoVRj-wk9DCFWiUjLqall50cHv5PXoq_JImxFGg/s1652/Screen+Shot+2020-11-17+at+4.10.49+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="1652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6gBL67lPOuCyKkzwO2xsM5QbCPRoNx_8oXkmQSKFTKs_Ru9kfrQadwangeMkJbh8OBzrvzLtfTQsFdgwH9q65NzyOk_G9jAIoVRj-wk9DCFWiUjLqall50cHv5PXoq_JImxFGg/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-11-17+at+4.10.49+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">As if to highlight the importance of recognizing the unique struggles transgender people continue to face in the workplace and other institutions, a case that’s been in and out of court for nine years was once again in court today.<br /><br />This morning, Dr. Rachel Tudor presented her case before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.<br /><br />The Women’s Law Project proudly signed on to an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief supporting Tudor that was <a href="https://nwlc.org/blog/dr-rachel-tudor-transgender-woman-professor-is-still-fighting-for-justice-in-her-sex-discrimination-case-heres-how-were-fighting-back-with-her/">filed by the National Women’s Law Center</a> and Cohen & Gresser, LLP on behalf of 31 additional organizations.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.womenslawproject.org/2020/11/16/transgender-rights-case-back-in-court-at-start-of-trans-awareness-week/" target="_blank">Click here to read more.</a></span></div>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-14445209083800136042020-11-17T16:09:00.003-05:002020-11-17T16:09:56.437-05:0010th Circuit likely to order reinstatement of transgender professor denied tenure<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFFvZPnuZl36fhcsclYlab2t-CtyXQAUFgJEpAIxK0TVBIGnkGxVWwB2UFpnRmjufAvBPksn1nG4jwSpfaf7-zxoHPVljSrm-AW-tBs5dzyBBlZFjC9SgvjxVhsJOfarYbSQ1Udg/s1594/Screen+Shot+2020-11-17+at+4.06.39+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFFvZPnuZl36fhcsclYlab2t-CtyXQAUFgJEpAIxK0TVBIGnkGxVWwB2UFpnRmjufAvBPksn1nG4jwSpfaf7-zxoHPVljSrm-AW-tBs5dzyBBlZFjC9SgvjxVhsJOfarYbSQ1Udg/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-11-17+at+4.06.39+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">The case is Tudor v. Southeastern Oklahoma State University, 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 18-6102.<br /><br />For Tudor: Jillian Weiss<br /><br />For the school: Zach West of the Oklahoma Attorney General's office<br /><br />A 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday signaled that it would order an Oklahoma state university to reinstate with tenure a transgender English professor, who had won a lawsuit claiming she was forced out of position because of her gender identity.<br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">A Denver-based three-judge panel during oral arguments held via livestream sounded skeptical of claims by Zach West, a lawyer in the Oklahoma attorney general's office who represents Southeastern Oklahoma State University, that hostility engendered between Rachel Tudor and the school since the lawsuit was filed in 2015 precluded her from returning to her position.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://today.westlaw.com/Document/I1628efb1284811eba59bd593a3235b72/View/FullText.html?transitionType=SearchItem&contextData=(sc.Default)" target="_blank">Click here to read more</a></span></div>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-37660684585213456972020-11-11T13:16:00.001-05:002020-11-11T13:16:33.507-05:00Sponsor of the WorldWide TransTech Summit<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://whova.com/web/trans5_202010/#" target="_blank">Jillian Weiss is one of the sponsors of the WorldWide TransTech Summit taking place November 14-15, 2020.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj48HrbJSLn-A_3A2msQ3Km2AuQ6o7aZ-7Dwa5bdaMFF4dX5wSdlwPaMcjNMlcJT4SKU53WECNsXBPV4kKbhgz-Zicr9lps3Atl2Bfi0woRi-LwZpnWlNqthrmU0ASiW3A8RxnyFw/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-11-11+at+1.12.01+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1232" height="623" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj48HrbJSLn-A_3A2msQ3Km2AuQ6o7aZ-7Dwa5bdaMFF4dX5wSdlwPaMcjNMlcJT4SKU53WECNsXBPV4kKbhgz-Zicr9lps3Atl2Bfi0woRi-LwZpnWlNqthrmU0ASiW3A8RxnyFw/w374-h623/Screen+Shot+2020-11-11+at+1.12.01+PM.png" width="374" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-22704088919969550722020-11-11T13:10:00.005-05:002020-11-11T13:17:10.272-05:00Speaker at WorldWide TransTech Summit on November 15, 2020 4:30-5:30 PM<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqOP1giEUu1M89hzCkoww0JskPckQKKtgJf5Qiap437Pb_LwHT1oWe3yvQyI3EBCo_GhCVKfWCzvyd4gB3TIRzYsYRGrxsdxrQo4rUaE66mCbNeOGnPPd5Ro_XKP0Hcxj-ncCrOw/s1480/Screen+Shot+2020-11-11+at+1.05.03+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="1480" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqOP1giEUu1M89hzCkoww0JskPckQKKtgJf5Qiap437Pb_LwHT1oWe3yvQyI3EBCo_GhCVKfWCzvyd4gB3TIRzYsYRGrxsdxrQo4rUaE66mCbNeOGnPPd5Ro_XKP0Hcxj-ncCrOw/w530-h170/Screen+Shot+2020-11-11+at+1.05.03+PM.png" width="530" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://whova.com/web/trans5_202010/#" target="_blank">Jillian Weiss will be speaking at the WorldWide TransTech Summit. Her session "The 4 Steps to Protect Yourself Legally from Job Discrimination" will focus on steps to protect yourself legally from job discrimination.</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 3rd annual TransTech Summit will take place on November 14th-15th with featured tracks in these areas and a Keynote from Angelica Ross, TransTech Founder and star of the FX hit TV Series POSE and American Horror Story:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Business<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Career Development<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Design<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Media<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Web/App<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Racial/Social Justice<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Human Rights<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">And much more...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Queer, Trans, and Gender Non-conforming identified professionals, speakers, and trainers from across the country are coming to collectively create solutions with and for our own community! The TransTech Summit is also open to ALL BODIES, whether you identify as trans or not, you are welcome- with the understanding that we center our focus on the most marginalized members of our community.</span></span></div><p></p><p></p>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-86224958305375069552020-10-14T06:24:00.023-04:002021-10-01T06:32:34.561-04:00Jillian Weiss named to Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers<br /><br />For the third consecutive year, Lawdragon is proud to publish its indispensable guide to the heroic lawyers throughout the U.S. working to ensure that workers’ rights are respected and fairly compensated.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguuCYuIChPvs8xlurDlw4jXATH6AVlgu_XxJcYwts7I9gQJaok0WQBq5SK7LyME6IwI9xXM6uJAToiya3ysAqSSGTEA07VrlJH_JT2jGcbW_nQsn7pDV1zIBnrKDtUv3g3Na-I-w/s1582/Screen+Shot+2021-10-01+at+6.28.00+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="1582" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguuCYuIChPvs8xlurDlw4jXATH6AVlgu_XxJcYwts7I9gQJaok0WQBq5SK7LyME6IwI9xXM6uJAToiya3ysAqSSGTEA07VrlJH_JT2jGcbW_nQsn7pDV1zIBnrKDtUv3g3Na-I-w/w640-h344/Screen+Shot+2021-10-01+at+6.28.00+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The 2020 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers guide was created through nominations and independent journalistic research vetted by peers and adversaries.<br /><br /><p>Read more: https://www.lawdragon.com/guides/2020-10-14-the-2020-lawdragon-500-leading-plaintiff-employment-lawyers</p></div>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-42802735507390678032020-09-18T09:40:00.002-04:002020-09-18T09:41:13.369-04:00How the Trump administration is getting around Bostock to allow anti-trans discrimination<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91Iiq8piFHO06b6jv58iEqHkA1e56s8XrYfwnLy5bmvaNmPF9XC6xhzhXizYT6KwL7pRhPeOZ4WdCuUedphuCcZXSJQvwmQvzbs1RTIZzcmyQt0orPHdg05IyENJfIdsBX8sglg/s1096/Screen+Shot+2020-09-18+at+9.35.18+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1096" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh91Iiq8piFHO06b6jv58iEqHkA1e56s8XrYfwnLy5bmvaNmPF9XC6xhzhXizYT6KwL7pRhPeOZ4WdCuUedphuCcZXSJQvwmQvzbs1RTIZzcmyQt0orPHdg05IyENJfIdsBX8sglg/w370-h289/Screen+Shot+2020-09-18+at+9.35.18+AM.png" width="370" /></a></div><br /><p></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /><br />Jillian Weiss, a New York-based transgender civil rights attorney, said the Trump administration is “doing its best to engage the LGBTQ community in a game of whack-a-mole” after having lost its argument of a more expansive view of the definition of “sex” in the Bostock case.<br /><br />In addition to limiting the definition of “sex” under the law as it pertains to transgender people in sex-segregated facilities, Weiss said the Trump administration is seeking to expand a religious right to discriminate against any protected category.<br /><br />“The Supreme Court seems to be going along with regard to the religious right to discriminate, but it is not clear yet what will happen with the attempts to narrowly define “sex,’” Weiss said. “The meaning of the term ‘sex’ has changed greatly over time, and scientists have taken the broader view. Given that, I do not believe that the narrow definition of ‘sex’ is valid in interpreting anti-discrimination laws.”</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/09/16/how-the-trump-administration-is-getting-around-bostock-to-allow-anti-trans-discrimination/" style="font-size: medium;" target="_blank">Click here to read more</a></span></div>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-79203153692286277082020-08-12T10:03:00.009-04:002020-08-13T15:11:03.741-04:00Harris as VP pick brings diversity, LGBTQ ally to Biden ticket<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfmkGRkMhzlMk6s68jXvIyd1ipvZNGvudZlcdw6qcGEn0laLyhQkHFQPZkh1JgGGQ9kPZaCGiLGtem41epQYYwq3Elh-9ykpq_KTiEuynqDDmsUBXbQ-ZK-JulgOZs5YWZ6Tl12A/s1112/Screen+Shot+2020-08-12+at+10.01.07+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1112" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfmkGRkMhzlMk6s68jXvIyd1ipvZNGvudZlcdw6qcGEn0laLyhQkHFQPZkh1JgGGQ9kPZaCGiLGtem41epQYYwq3Elh-9ykpq_KTiEuynqDDmsUBXbQ-ZK-JulgOZs5YWZ6Tl12A/w400-h299/Screen+Shot+2020-08-12+at+10.01.07+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Jillian Weiss, a New York-based transgender advocate who has been critical of Harris’ handling of trans inmate cases, said via email to the Blade she believes the vice presidential candidate “has moved beyond her previously limited understanding of transgender rights.”<br /><br />“The entire country is learning about the importance of trans rights,” Weiss said. “I am certain that she will be a leader who actively supports increased rights for trans people. I am doubly certain that she and Joe Biden will be head and shoulders better for trans people than the actively transphobic administration we now have.”<br /><br />“I disagree with her on some of her past and current positions,” Weiss said. “My yardstick for political support is not perfection. I am voting for her and for Joe Biden so that the suffering our community now endures can be alleviated.”<br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/08/11/harris-as-vp-pick-brings-diversity-lgbtq-ally-to-biden-ticket/" target="_blank">Click here to read more</a></span></div>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-71148783707394886922020-08-04T09:38:00.002-04:002020-08-04T09:38:55.652-04:00Religion, LGBT Rights Again on Collision Course at High Court<font face="arial" size="5">“Religion is one of the few areas that conservatives have to hang their hat on,” said Jillian Weiss, special co-counsel to Outten & Golden, who works with the firm’s LGBTQ workplace rights practice group. “It will definitely be a major area of litigation.”</font><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><font face="arial">
Funeral home owner Thomas Rost said he would be “violating God’s commands” if he allowed his transgender employee Aimee Stephens to work as a woman, during the Michigan business’s battle over gender identity discrimination that ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.</font><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/religion-lgbt-rights-again-on-collision-course-at-high-court" target="_blank">Click here to read more</a></font></div>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-21704766408675931082020-08-03T16:30:00.007-04:002020-08-03T16:35:34.513-04:00‘Because of sex’ approach to protecting trans people<font face="arial" size="5">After promoting the trans legal case “because of sex” for years, I tried to get the national LGBTQ, and particularly trans, organizations to recognize our success post-Macy. They would have none of it. The lawyers at HRC, the National LGBT Task Force, and even NCTE, the National Center for Transgender Equality on whose board I sat, refused to acknowledge the breakthroughs. To get the word out I had to publish a pamphlet, with attorney Jillian Weiss and activist Riki Wilchins, which was promoted by Masen Davis and the Transgender Law Center, the only nationally oriented trans group willing to get on board.</font> <div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/07/23/because-of-sex-approach-to-protecting-trans-people/" target="_blank">Click here to read more</a></div>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-41508038811487807862020-06-27T11:38:00.002-04:002020-06-27T11:40:14.834-04:00Jillian Weiss explaining the LGBTQ Supreme Court Decision on Queersplaining<font size="5">Jillian Weiss joins host Callie Wright for a discussion of the meaning and effects of Bostock v. Clayton County, the June 15 decision holding that gay and trans people are protected from discrimination under the federal Civil Rights Act.</font><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.queersplaining.com/2020/06/22/we-won-one/">http://www.queersplaining.com/2020/06/22/we-won-one/</a></div>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-8833915726668997662020-06-18T14:42:00.002-04:002020-08-13T15:11:24.948-04:00Gay rights ruling pushes work dynamic already in motion<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvq3rtWP57IcWKXXz-Mb4ZJf8pZnfLkQP28uLsw4n6AeppmRv4VipkiHMpheDa1Kc3l8uzumDDkWtzKIil1pZFf9oZJFNESgMymxEOkCYkYqFYqW-KipP3enKHIOnweZ35GSs-hw/s1242/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+2.41.11+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1242" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvq3rtWP57IcWKXXz-Mb4ZJf8pZnfLkQP28uLsw4n6AeppmRv4VipkiHMpheDa1Kc3l8uzumDDkWtzKIil1pZFf9oZJFNESgMymxEOkCYkYqFYqW-KipP3enKHIOnweZ35GSs-hw/w400-h259/Screen+Shot+2020-08-13+at+2.41.11+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">“The arguments raised by Saks in that case, that transgender employees are not protected, it caused a firestorm for them because of the fact that they are a retailer that has a lot of policies favoring LGBTQ people,” said Jillian Weiss, a prominent employment discrimination lawyer who brought the case. “They backed off that position. But now nobody is going to be able to take that position.”<br /><br />Weiss said she expected the decision Monday to change her bargaining position in settlement talks with defendants who had said, “We’re not going to give you more because once the Supreme Court rules, then we’d have to give you zero.”</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">When a Walmart associate named Jacqueline Cote filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2014 contending that the company was discriminating against her by denying health insurance benefits to her same-sex spouse, it signaled the beginning of a drawn-out legal battle.<br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://finance-commerce.com/2020/06/gay-rights-ruling-pushes-work-dynamic-already-in-motion/" target="_blank">Click here to read more</a></span></div>Shari Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025862712362028195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-66145020081806492382020-06-18T06:48:00.007-04:002020-06-18T06:55:03.198-04:00New York Times: Dormant Transgender Rights Cases See New Life in Supreme Court Ruling<div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><blockquote><font face="georgia" size="5">“Twelve people in Oklahoma understood that this trans woman was discriminated against, and they should have their verdict back, and she should have her life back,” said Jillian Weiss, an employment discrimination lawyer who is representing Ms. Tudor.</font></blockquote></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 23px;"><font face="georgia"><br /></font></span></div><font face="georgia">Transgender Americans such as Rachel Tudor have been fighting for their rights at work, school and housing for years. On Monday, the Supreme Court gave them hope.</font><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><span><a name='more'></a></span><font face="georgia"><br /></font><br /><br /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/#"><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/14/multimedia/author-erica-l-green/author-erica-l-green-thumbLarge-v2.png" /></a><br /><br /><br />By <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/#">Erica L. Green</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><font face="georgia">WASHINGTON — The only thing Rachel Tudor wants more than to be herself is to teach.<br /><br />After transitioning from male to female in 2007, Ms. Tudor, a professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, applied for tenure to ensure she could do both. But her path was blocked by members of the university’s administration, including one who wondered if she could be fired for her new gender identity. In 2011, she was out of a job.<br /><br />Nine years later, the Supreme Court seemed to confirm on Monday that the university’s actions violated Ms. Tudor’s civil rights, when six justices ruled that <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/#">Title VII of the Civil Rights Act extended to gender identity</a>. Ms. Tudor’s long-stalled federal employment suit was granted new life.<br /><br />“When I read what they decided, I felt a page had turned not only in my life, but in the nation’s, and in the history of civil rights,” Ms. Tudor said in an interview on Tuesday. “I hope that as a result of the Supreme Court decision, no one else will have to live with the dilemma of having to choose between doing what they love and being who they are.”<br /><br />Read more: <br /></font><br /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/#">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/politics/transgender-rights-cases-supreme-court.html</a><span><!--more--></span><span><!--more--></span></div>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-43542718760371272552020-06-18T06:44:00.002-04:002020-06-18T06:53:19.603-04:00Bloomberg Law: Top Court Ruling on LGBT Workers Will Reverberate in States<div><blockquote><font face="georgia" size="5">Courts in conservative states have issued rulings saying they follow Title VII, and those states will likely yield to the federal law, said Jillian Weiss, an attorney with Outten & Golden who works with the firm's LGBTQ Workplace Rights Practice Group.</font></blockquote><br /></div><div><br /></div>The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision giving LGBT workers federal anti-discrimination protections will ripple across those states without laws that explicitly prohibit bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity.<br /><br />State courts aren’t bound by the high court’s <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/workers-cant-be-fired-for-being-gay-u-s-supreme-court-rules">ruling</a> that interpreted Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But they’ll be persuaded by the decision and its reasoning that bias “because of sex” includes orientation or identity discrimination, especially if their state law was modeled on Title VII or includes similar language, legal observers said.<div><br /></div><span></span><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br />The Supreme Court’s ruling also could fuel action in Congress and spur some state legislatures to expand their anti-discrimination laws, observers said.<br /><br />The scope of state workplace bias laws could have a significant impact on LGBT workers despite Title VII covering the entire country. That federal law doesn’t apply to companies with less than 15 employees, meaning millions of workers at <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/lgbtq-workers-still-face-on-job-bias-risk-from-small-businesses">very small businesses</a> must rely on state-level protections.<br /><br />Workers might also choose to sue under state law instead of Title VII due to statute of limitations issues, the state law having more generous remedies, or a desire to keep their case in state rather than federal court.<br /><br />Read more: <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/high-court-ruling-on-lgbt-workers-set-to-reverberate-in-states">https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/high-court-ruling-on-lgbt-workers-set-to-reverberate-in-states</a></div>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-47339049038186794492020-06-18T06:37:00.004-04:002020-06-18T06:55:33.834-04:00New York Times: L.G.B.T.Q. Rights Ruling Pushes Workplace Dynamic Already in MotionThe Supreme Court decision gives plaintiffs leverage, but companies large and small are still expected to face legal cases over their policies.<br /><br /><blockquote><i><font face="georgia" size="5">Ms. Weiss said she expected the decision on Monday to change her bargaining position in settlement talks with defendants who had said, “We’re not going to give you more because once the Supreme Court rules, then we’d have to give you zero.”</font></i></blockquote><div> When a Walmart associate named Jacqueline Cote filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2014 contending that the company was discriminating against her by denying health insurance benefits to her <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/#">same-sex</a> spouse, it signaled the beginning of a drawn-out legal battle.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br />It was not until December 2016 that the company announced that it had <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/14795942/4080382705307684859?hl=en#">agreed to a settlement</a> retroactively compensating Ms. Cote and other employees affected by the denial of spousal benefits.<br />If, by contrast, Ms. Cote had brought her case after the <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/14795942/4080382705307684859?hl=en#">Supreme Court ruling</a> on Monday holding that lesbian, <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/14795942/4080382705307684859?hl=en#">gay and transgender</a> employees are covered by the civil rights law that protects workers from discrimination on the basis of race, religion and sex, said one of her lawyers, Janson Wu, executive director of <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/14795942/4080382705307684859?hl=en#">LGBTQ</a> Legal Advocates & Defenders, the case would probably have been resolved much more quickly.<div><br />“At the time we litigated that case employers could argue that an employee didn’t have a legal claim to bring,” he said. “With this decision, it should be clear that employees shouldn’t even have to bring a lawsuit to enforce their rights.”<div><br />Read more:<br /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/14795942/4080382705307684859?hl=en#">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/business/economy/lgbtq-supreme-court-workforce.html?searchResultPosition=1<br /></a>x<br /><br /><p></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p><p></p></div></div></div>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795942.post-6084710736787936972020-05-01T12:54:00.001-04:002020-06-18T06:56:16.163-04:00Greater Salt Lake police officer who is transgender sues department for alleged discrimination<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the majority of his career at Unified Police Department, Taylor Scruggs loved his work. If he wasn’t taking phone calls or writing reports, he said, he was being proactive, out finding stolen cars or fugitives or illegal drugs.<br />
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A former teacher, he said he loved the ebb and flow of police work, that every day was different than the one before. But there was at least one constant.<br />
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“I went home every night, and was like, ‘Man, I can’t wait to get up tomorrow and do this all over again,’" Scruggs said.</blockquote></font><br />
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Yet when the UPD detective, with ten years of experience on the force, came out as transgender and started physically transitioning, people around the office treated him differently, he said...<br />
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Read more: <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/24/ex-unified-police-officer/">https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/24/ex-unified-police-officer/</a>Jillian Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01195990752914534567noreply@blogger.com