Tag: Oklahoma
TLDEF Applauds Oklahoma Jury’s Verdict in Favour of Wrongfully Fired English Professor
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund applauds an Oklahoma jury’s verdict today in favour of an English professor who was fired from from her teaching job on the basis of her sex.
TLDEF Fights for Wrongfully Fired Professor at Fifth Circuit
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its dismissal of TLDEF’s appeal on behalf of an English Professor who was fired from from her teaching position on the basis of her sex.
Transgender Woman Asks Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to Allow a Path Forward for Her Title VII Discrimination Case
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund client Dr. Rachel Tudor has asked the New Orleans based United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overturn a nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Wichita Falls, Texas, which has disrupted transgender sex discrimination cases throughout the country, including her own.
Drag Queen Hero: Miss Gay Oklahoma Honoured
When not teaching yoga, Oklahoma City’s Ryan Tigner is known as soigné female impersonator, Ry’lee Hilton, crowned Miss Gay Oklahoma America 2016 this past July.
Oklahoma Lawmakers Introduce Vile Measure Attacking Transgender Youth
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, and Freedom Oklahoma, the state organisation working to advance equality for LGBT Oklahomans, strongly condemned the introduction of a new anti-transgender bill in the Oklahoma State Legislature.
Court OKs Transgender Professor’s Claim Against Southeastern Oklahoma State University
The U.S. Department of Justice brought a complaint against Southeastern Oklahoma State University and another defendant on March 30, 2015. The suit alleged that the University terminated the employment of Dr. Rachel Tudor, an assistant professor, based on her gender, gender identity and gender expression, as well as in retaliation for making complaints of discrimination. Dr. Tudor intervened in the lawsuit by bringing her own complaint on May 5, 2015. She included an additional claim for the hostile work environment to which she was subjected.