The Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding the civil rights of a transgender individual for the first time on Tuesday.
Washington Aimee Stephens finally mustered the courage back in 2013 to tell her co-workers about something that she had struggled with her entire life: her gender identity.
"I have known many of you for some time now," Stephens explained in a letter, and then she told them she had decided to have sex reassignment surgery and reject the sex she'd been assigned at birth. "The first step I must take is to live and work full-time as a woman," Stephens wrote."I will return to work as my true self,"she added,"in appropriate business attire." Not long after, she was fired from her job as the director of a funeral home. She sued.
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