She started working as an editor for the state assembly in 2005, a dream job for Glenn. The next year, Glenn informed her boss of her decision to become a woman. Soon, Glenn began wearing women's clothes on a regular basis to the workplace.
However, two years into building a dream job, Glenn's supervisor terminated her, calling her lifestyle, "perhaps immoral, perhaps unnatural." Glenn's boss said that the way she was dressed would make other people uncomfortable and that her gender transition would be disruptive. Glenn recorded the conversation.
In 2008, Lambda Legal filed suit on behalf of Glenn.
A U.S. district court judge found that Glenn was a victim of sex discrimination and ordered the Assembly to employ her again. The judge said, in a 19-page decision, that Glenn's firing met the criteria to fall under sex-based discrimination. The judge held that, "all persons whether transgender or not, are protected from discrimination on the basis of gender stereotypes." The 11th Circuit has held similarly that, "A person cannot be lawfully terminated because an employer objects to the way an employee expresses his or her gender."
After getting her job back, Glenn says about the bigots, "[T]hey don't have power over you."
Read more here.
