Employment

Many transgender individuals experience discrimination in the workplace and have either not been considered for a job, not been considered for a promotion, or have been fired from their job because of the gender identity or expression.
In 2012 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that discriminating against someone because that person is transgender is discrimination based on sex, which violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex (among other characteristics) by an employer with 15 or more employees, but at the time did not explicitly address gender identity.

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