WHAM!

An Alabama nursing home just had a ton of bricks fall on them.

Boss Who Asked Transgender Woman 'What Are You?' Agrees To Significant Settlement
"They saw the writing on the wall."
The Huffington Post
By Lila Shapiro Senior Staff Reporter
Posted: 09/10/2015

Last November, Jessi Dye showed up at Summerford Nursing Home for what would turn out to be both her first and last day of work.

The morning started well. Dye attended a series of training sessions, completed paperwork, received vaccinations. She was excited about the new job; it seemed like there was a real future with the company, and they'd offered to pay for her training to become a certified nurse's assistant.

But then over lunch, she was asked to go speak with Robert Summerford, the manager of the company, about her paperwork.

"What are you?" he asked her, as soon as she'd entered his office.
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After Dye answered Summerford’s question, explaining that she was born male and was in the process of transitioning to female, he asked her, “What am I supposed to do with you?” and then instructed her to get her things and leave the premises.

Most of the time employers are smart enough not to be so outright in firing a trans employee, this guy was so brazing he basically handed her the discrimination case on a gold plate.

In March, Dye, with the support of lawyers from the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center, filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. On Thursday, the Southern Poverty Law Center announced that Summerford had reached a settlement with Dye. Rather than face a possible fight over Dye’s accusation in federal court, the company agreed to implement a policy that prohibits discrimination against job applicants and employees on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and to conduct sensitivity training concerning LGBT people. (The amount of money paid to Dye in the settlement has not been disclosed.)

I wish that we didn’t need to resort to legal action because whenever Ms. Dye applies for a job and they do a search on her name they will know that she is transgender and that she has sued other employers. I wish employers just did the right thing.