Law360 (June 14, 2021, 1:11 PM EDT) — On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the landmark case Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, which extended workplace protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community individuals.[1]
In Bostock, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for a 6-3 majority expanding the definition of “because of … sex” in Title VII to explicitly include members of the LGBTQ community because: “When an employer fires an employee for being homosexual or transgender, it necessarily intentionally discriminates against that individual in part because of sex.”[2]
Upon the release of the decision, Bostock was hailed as…
