Q Toon: Lost in Trans Litigation

The Corrupt Trump Administration has decided to file an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court's consideration of R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The case arises from the funeral homes' firing of Aimee Stephens, a Detroit funeral home director who informed her boss, Thomas Rost, that she planned to transition from male to female and to represent herself on the job as a woman.

In March 2018, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the funeral home had violated Title VII anti-discrimination laws ..., with the court ruling that “discrimination on the basis of transgender and transitioning status is necessarily discrimination on the basis of sex" and therefore protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
However, in their court filing submitted Friday, Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco and Department of Justice attorneys argued that the specific Civil Rights Act provision “does not bar discrimination because of transgender status,” meaning the Michigan funeral home was within its right to fire Stephens.

“In 1964, the ordinary public meaning of ‘sex’ was biological sex. It did not encompass transgender status,” the brief reads. “In the particular context of Title VII — legislation originally designed to eliminate employment discrimination against racial and other minorities — it was especially clear that the prohibition on discrimination because of ‘sex’ referred to unequal treatment of men and women in the workplace.”

To me, this seems to be a perfect example of how, all things being absolutely equal, a woman can still be treated differently from a man in total disregard of anti-discrimination employment law. This isn't even a case of two people equally qualified for a job; this time, they're both the exact same person.

It's easy to figure out the Corrupt Trump Administration's interest in the case. Trump has demonstrated such a need to attack transgender persons at every opportunity that I'm pretty sure he must have had a "Lola" moment in his past that didn't go well.

Besides, he's got to keep those Bible-thumpin' Evan Jellicles happy if he is to have any chance at reelection. The Log Cabin Republicans can be bought off with a couple ambassador posts and the transgender community isn't going to vote for him, anyway. Not even Caitlyn Jenner. But the Falwells, Jeffresses, Grahams, Bakkers and the like expect to get some value for the souls they sold to Donald "Two Corinthians" Trump.

And it costs him nothing to serve them transgender rights on a platter.