Editing Sexism (section)

=== Transgender discrimination ===

{{see also|Transgender inequality}}

Transgender people also experience significant workplace discrimination and harassment.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/discrimination/bias-in-the-workplace-consistent-evidence-of-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-discrimination/ |title=Bias in the Workplace: Consistent Evidence of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination |date=June 22, 2007 |website=[[Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy|Williams Institute]] |language=en-US |access-date=August 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826112250/https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/discrimination/bias-in-the-workplace-consistent-evidence-of-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-discrimination/ |archive-date=August 26, 2019}}</ref> Unlike sex-based discrimination, refusing to hire (or firing) a worker for their gender identity or expression is not explicitly illegal in most U.S. states.<ref name="Steinmetz 2015">{{cite magazine |url=http://fortune.com/2015/01/12/saks-transgender-fire/ |title=Does Saks have the legal right to fire a transgender employee? |publisher=Fortune |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=January 12, 2015 |access-date=April 30, 2015 |author=Steinmetz, Katy}}</ref> In June 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled that federal civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender workers. Writing for the majority, Justice [[Neil Gorsuch]] wrote: "An employer who fires 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. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Supreme Court says federal law protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/politics/supreme-court-lgbtq-employment-case/index.html |access-date=June 21, 2020 |website=CNN |date=June 15, 2020}}</ref> The ruling however did not protect [[LGBT]] employees from being fired based on their sexual orientation or gender identity in businesses of 15 workers or less.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/even-ruling-workplace-still-unequal-lgbtq-workers-n1231419 |title=Even with ruling, workplace still unequal for LGBTQ workers |website=[[NBC News]] |date=June 18, 2020}}</ref>

In August 1995, Kimberly Nixon filed a complaint with the [[British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal]] against Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter. Nixon, a [[trans woman]], had been interested in volunteering as a counsellor with the shelter. When the shelter learned that she was [[transsexual]], they told Nixon that she would not be allowed to volunteer with the organization. Nixon argued that this constituted illegal discrimination under Section 41 of the British Columbia ''[[Human Rights Code (British Columbia)|Human Rights Code]]''. Vancouver Rape Relief countered that individuals are shaped by the [[socialization]] and experiences of their formative years, and that Nixon had been socialized as a male growing up, and that, therefore, Nixon would not be able to provide sufficiently effective counselling to the female born women that the shelter served. Nixon took her case to the Supreme Court of Canada, which refused to hear the case.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thetyee.ca/News/2007/02/03/Nixon/ |title=Transsexual Loses Fight with Women's Shelter |last=Rupp |first=Shannon |date=2007-02-03 |website=[[The Tyee]] |language=en |access-date=June 17, 2016}}</ref>