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Section 7

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Section 7
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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
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2020-06-15

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that Title VII prohibits discrimination because of sexual orientation. See
Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Ind., 853 F. 3d 339 (2017) (en
banc). Judge Posner agreed with that result but wrote:
  “I would prefer to see us acknowledge openly that today we, who are
judges rather than members of Congress, are imposing on a half-century-
old statute a meaning of ‘sex discrimination’ that the Congress that en-
acted it would not have accepted.” Id., at 357 (concurring opinion) (em-
phasis added).
  6 The Court does not define what it means by “transgender status,” but