Opinion | Chase Strangio: 'I think what has been lost on people...is that this could be a wholesale redefinition of federal civil rights law. And that's just the beginning.' - NBCNewsTHINK
CHASE STRANGIO: It's the first. It's everything. But I think what does help is if you start to just really ask people, sort of,"How do you know what your gender is?" If you ask anyone that, they'll say,"Well, I just know."And some people will say,"My parents told me." Some people say,"I had a brother,""I had a sister.
CHASE STRANGIO: Yes. Which is one of the reasons why these cases at the Supreme Court are so baffling. The sort of nature of the legal rights but also material access to survival that trans people have had has been predicated on utilizing federal prohibitions on sex discrimination. And it's so intuitive, because you can't actually describe a trans-ness without thinking about sex as a category. It is that which transgresses from one side to the other.
CHRIS HAYES: It's currently, as a matter of both the interpretation of statutory law and Supreme Court law, that if someone walks in for a job and you say,"No, we don't hire women accountants," you can't do that. Or you say,"You're fired because you're a woman, and we don't like women accountants." That's clearly and flatly against the law as understood now, correct?CHRIS HAYES: Right.
Now here's what's more astonishing and, frankly, should terrify people even more. I mean, I think people should care about LGBT workers, but they are proposing that Title VII itself should not be understood to include the expansive sex stereotyping protections that it has included for the last two decades.CHASE STRANGIO: They want to roll... Yes. They want to roll back Price Waterhouse significantly because...
This is in 2014. Obama is president. The EEOC brings the lawsuit on her behalf, so that the lawsuit is actually the EEOC versus the funeral home. So they are the parties in the case. We intervened on her behalf after the election out of concern that the EEOC would no longer defend the interests of Aimee.CHRIS HAYES: That'll be one of the three cases that are consolidated and argued October 8th.
CHASE STRANGIO: I mean, I think one of the things that I have always seen about looking at trans people is that we are a very easy target because it's easy to peel our allies away from us, so you can sort of align yourself quickly with even liberals who are uncomfortable with trans existence. You can even, you know, there are LGB folks who are like,"Just leave them behind.
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