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Does the Civil Rights Act Ban Discrimination Against LGBT People? The Supreme Court Plans to Decide.

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For a trio of anti-LGBT discrimination cases, the issue revolves around the meaning of one word: sex.
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear several cases deciding whether federal protections apply to LGBT people—specifically, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of «race, color, religion, sex or national origin.»
For each of these cases, the issue revolves around the meaning of one word in that list: sex. As writer Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza explained in Pacific Standard:
Ever since, plaintiffs have asked the courts to consider whether sex-based discrimination includes anti-LGBT discrimination. Now, the Supreme Court has a chance to settle that question, starting with two discrimination lawsuits: Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda and Bostock v. Clayton County, in which two employees allege they were fired because of their sexual orientation. The justices also agreed to decide whether Title VII applies to discrimination against transgender people based on their status or sex stereotyping.
How have different legal bodies already interpreted this framework, and what can we expect in the future?
This federal agency has been at the forefront of the push to extend protections under Title VII to gay, transgender, and non-binary people.

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