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Springfield, MO
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled existing federal law protects LGBTQ workers from job discrimination.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 now covers sexual orientation and transgender status.
"An employer who fired an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court. "Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids."
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