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LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — And when Jessi Dye informed the Alabama employer she was a trans woman, she was fired and told to leave the building. Dye asked the senior official if she was being fired because she was transgender and the answer was a confirmation.

That was nearly a year ago. However, in March, with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Dye filed a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Now comes news that her former employer Summerford Nursing Home Inc., has agreed to a cash settlement with Dye and will adopt a new anti-discrimination policy and the official who fired Dye will undergo SPLC training.

Dye: “I hope by taking a stand about what happened to me, it will help others in the LGBT community realize they have a right to equal treatment.”

SPLC’s Sam Wolfe: “The nursing home has done the right thing by resolving this case short of federal litigation . . . no one should lose her job simply because she is transgender or because of some other aspect of who she is that has no bearing on job performance.”

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Thumbs up to the SPLC and congrats to Jessi. Some news reports say the cash was sizable, which is fair, because not only her former employer called her a “what”, they also inquired about her sex and physical anatomy before firing her.

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2015/09/10/alabama-nursing-home-settles-discrimination-case-after-firing-transgender-woman

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