Brenna Lewis is an Iowa woman who describes her appearance as “slightly more masculine.” Lewis prefers to wear loose-fitting clothing, including men’s button-down shirts and slacks. She avoids makeup and wears her hair short. At times, Lewis has been mistaken for a male and referred to as “tomboyish.” One of her supervisors allegedly characterized Lewis’ look as “an Ellen DeGeneres kind of look.”
None of these things would have mattered, though, if it were not for her employer, who allegedly thought that she just lacked that “Midwestern girl look” and was not quite pretty enough.
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