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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)

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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
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2020-06-15
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Representative Smith's motivations are contested, 883 F.3d at 139-140 (Lynch, J., dissenting), but whatever they were, the meaning of the adoption of the prohibition of sex discrimination is clear. It was no accident. It grew out of "a long history of women's rights advocacy that had increasingly been gaining mainstream recognition and acceptance," and it marked a landmark achievement in the path toward fully *1777equal rights for women. Id. , at 140. "Discrimination against gay women and men, by contrast, was not on the table for public debate ... [i]n those dark, pre-Stonewall days." Ibid .