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Supreme Court ruling extends workplace protections to an estimated 1.2 million LGBT Texans

from Houston Chronicle

Supreme Court ruling extends workplace protections to an estimated 1.2 million LGBT Texans Houston Chronicle The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that employers cannot fire workers because they are gay or transgender — a major victory for LGBT rights that extends new protections to workers in Texas, one of 29 states without laws in place that already offer them. The conservative Supreme Court ruling weighed whether the federal civil rights law barring sex discrimination against women also applied to LGBT workers. READ MORE

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