According to Vox, a transgender woman was won $1.1 million in a landmark discrimination case on Monday.
Rachel Tudor, a US professor, filed a lawsuit against Oklahoma University, claiming that they had discriminated against her for being transgender. She stated that the university had dictated what clothes she could wear, restricted which bathrooms she could use, denied her tenure, and eventually fired her in 2011.
Oklahoma civil rights law doesn’t explicitly protect transgender people, which posed a problem for Tudor’s case. However, she argued that the university had violated federal laws banning discrimination based on sex.
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In a promising ruling for the LGBT community, the jury sided with Tudor, stating that she had “proven by a preponderance of the evidence” that she had been discriminated against on the basis of her gender.
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