was fired by Detroit-area company R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes in 2013 after she informed management she would begin presenting as female at work.
She filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which sued on her behalf.In June of this year, the Supreme Court ruled that job discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation constituted sex discrimination, which is banned by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The court did not rule on the merits of the three cases it considered — that is, whether such discrimination actually occurred — so they went back to the lower courts.