BONUS: SCOTUS LGBTQ Discrimination Cases

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Lgbtq, Documentary, Queer, Personal Journals, Gender, Nonbinary, Society & Culture, Genderqueer, Transgender, Trans

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Tuck breaks down three landmark LGBTQ cases argued in the United States Supreme Court earlier today.

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This SCOTUS/LGBTQ discrimination explainer from Vox is really useful.
The transcript excerpt featured in the episode is available here.
Adult Mom’s referenced tweet is here.
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Transcript

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0:00.0	What? Welcome to Gender Review, the Podcast, the podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to
0:19.7	understanding what the hell straight cis people's problem is.
0:23.0	I'm your host and resident gender detective
0:26.7	Molly Woodstock.
0:28.0	Hey everyone, I hope that now as always you are still hanging in there.
0:38.3	This was a big day for queer and trans people in the United States.
0:43.7	You may have heard something about a Supreme Court case that was argued earlier today.
0:48.1	And I wanted to talk a little bit about what's going on because it is really hard to understand the Supreme Court.
0:53.8	It's really intentionally shrouded in mystery and like legal jargon.
0:57.6	And I am not an expert on this, but I do know how to do some research so hopefully this helps.
1:05.0	The background of this situation is that currently the majority of U.S US states don't have any laws protecting employees
1:16.4	from being fired based on their real or perceived gender identity or sexual orientation.
1:22.0	There are only 21 or 22 states that prevent either
1:26.4	queer or trans people from being fired from their job purely for being queer or
1:32.2	trans. What's more, you don't even actually have to
1:35.4	be queer or trans. They just have to assume that you are. So that's where we are right now.
1:41.0	Today, the Supreme Court heard three cases about whether it's
1:45.6	legal to fire someone for being gay or trans or queer etc. The first Altitude Express Inc. V. Zarda, is a lawsuit on behalf of Donald Zarda, a man who was fired from a skydiving job in 2010 after disclosing to a female client that he was gay.
2:03.0	That case was consolidated with another one,
2:06.0	Bostock versus Clayton County,
2:08.0	which alleges that Clayton County Georgia employee Gerald Bostock
2:12.0	was fired from his job after joining a gay softball league.
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