released to Detroit News. "The outpouring of love and support is our strength and inspiration now."In 2013, Stephens informed her boss, Thomas Rost, of her transition and was fired a few weeks later, admitting in a deposition that he had done so because Stephens "wanted to dress as a woman" and would no longer "represent himself as a man."Stephens took her case to the Supreme Court, with a ruling anticipated by July on whether Title 7 of the federal civil rights law covered discrimination.