For the first time in its history, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled Friday that federal laws against sex discrimination are applicable to transgender people. Mia Macy, a ballistics expert and law enforcement veteran, alleges the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms discriminated against her based on her sex when it hastily canceled her application for a job at the agency’s crime lab in Walnut Creek. Her lawyer, Matthew Wood of San Francisco’s Transgender Law Center, says the agency rescinded an oral offer of the job after Macy changed her sex and name on her application, and his organization filed a complaint with the EEOC shortly thereafter, alleging the ATF had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
The Recorder caught up with Wood on Wednesday.
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