Laverne Cox Wants People To Rally At The Supreme Court As It Hears A Major Sex Discrimination Case

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'This will be the first time the Supreme Court is hearing any case about transgender civil rights, the first time, ever.'

"People are going to be coming from all over the country and letting the Supreme Court know and letting this nation know that we do not believe it should be legal to fire you simply for being who you are," theIt was announced in April that the nation's highest court would be taking a look at Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.

"This will be the first time the Supreme Court is hearing any case about transgender civil rights, the first time, ever," Cox said, before going into how this could specifically impact not only transgender people but other queer people too.

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LGBT Any evangelical fundamentalist that complains about Christian persecution and who proceeds to persecute LGBT+ people is a hypocrite who lacks moral integrity.

LGBT At No Point During The Creation of Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Was There Any Consideration of the Word “SEX” to mean anything but MAN or WOMAN In The Traditional Sense, Only A Broken Uneducated or Deviant Mind Would Consider Otherwise! ONLY LGBTQ WOULD TRY TO TWIST THIS

I am not hopeful for a positive outcome from this Supreme Court.

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