Drôle de question, mais elle s'applique dans un contexte bien particulier... El'Jai Devoureau, qui est né femme, a été congédié d'un boulot sous le prétexte que "seul un homme pouvait le faire". M. Devoureau était affecté à la surveillance des hommes hommes qui urinent dans des contenants de plastique dans un centre de toxicomanie.
Devoureau prétend s'être toujours comporté comme un homme et il a changé officiellement changé de sexe il y a quelques années. Il souhaite obtenir réparation...
"Civil rights laws and court decisions allow limited cases of favoring one group over another, like giving preference to women for jobs as nurses in maternity wards. In its January filing, Urban Treatment said that firing Mr. Devoureau was legitimate, “since the sex of the employee engaged in that particular job position is a bona fide occupational qualification” — implying that Mr. Devoureau was not really a man.
Mr. Devoureau’s suit, filed in Superior Court in Camden, is not the first job discrimination case brought by a transgender person, though those remain rare. But Michael D. Silverman, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, said it was the first employment case in the country to take on the question of a transgender person’s sex.
Mr. Silverman’s group and the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher are representing Mr. Devoureau.
New Jersey laws ban job discrimination based on a long list of criteria like age, religion, sex and race; in 2006, the state added “gender identity or expression” to that list. But five years later, Mr. Silverman said, no cases using the gender identity passage have been brought to a verdict, though others might have reached settlements.
New Jersey is one of 12 states that ban discrimination based on transgender status; New York State does not, but New York City does."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/nyregion/11sexchange.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha29
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