Chase Strangio:

Yes. Aimee Stephens case is sort of sadly a typical one. She was a model employee at a funeral home in Michigan and she was living as male and working as a man. But she knew that she was trans, she knew inside that she was a woman. And after many years of sort of model employment she informed her employer that the only way she could live in her authentic self was to come to work as a woman, to transition. And as soon as she informed her employer about her being trans, she was fired. And so the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the EEOC actually initially brought the lawsuit on her behalf. She won in the lower court. Basically the court said there's no question that when you discriminate against someone because they are trans that is discrimination on the basis of sex that's a violation of Title VII federal civil rights law. The employer has now sought review from the United States Supreme Court and the court is being asked by the Trump administration and by the funeral home to interpret the law in such a way that trans people are excluded from coverage. Basically saying undo the protections that trans people have and let employers fire people and otherwise discriminate against people just because of who they are.