The school district voted not to include gender identity and sexual orientation in its nondiscrimination policies, despite SCOTUS’ ‘Bostock’ decision DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com One week after the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that “sex” includes sexual orientation and gender identity protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Mansfield ISD’s school board voted unanimously on Tuesday night, June 23, not to expand its nondiscrimination employment policy to include those two categories.
Stacy Bailey, a Mansfield ISD elementary school art teacher who had been lauded as teacher of the year, filed suit against the district in 2018 after she was removed from her classroom in late 2017 because she mentioned her