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NO Business nor Public entity could fire some one on Gender Change, not just the (wrongfully supposed in this case) Teachers Union

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Boy that didnt take long for gerry the dim witted admin to somehow make it about the "teachers union"

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On appeal, the decision in Ulane (supra) was reversed. The Seventh Circuit, while acknowledging that title VII is a remedial statute and thus to be liberally construed, determined that it was "constrained" to rule that the term "sex" in the statute had to be given its "plain meaning [which] implies that it is unlawful to discriminate against women because they are women and against men because they are men" (742 F2d, at 1085, supra). Thus, it was concluded that while a transsexual claiming discrimination because of his or her current status as a male or female could state a valid cause of action under title VII, the discrimination here was because plaintiff was a transsexual, "a biological male who takes female hormones, cross-dresses, and has surgically altered parts of her body to make it appear to be female" (supra, at 1087), and the statute does not protect persons based on their sexual identity. In so ruling, the court observed that there was little legislative history to the amendment adding the word "sex" to the statute in that it was added as a floor amendment one day before House approval of the legislation as a "gambit" of a southern congressman seeking to scuttle the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which was originally designed only to prohibit discrimination based on race (supra, at 1085).

The ruling in Ulane (supra) is consistent with the decisions of all Federal courts that have considered the issue, to wit: Dobre v National R. R. Passenger Corp. (850 F Supp 284 [ED Pa 1993]); Sommers v Budget Mktg. (667 F2d 748 [8th Cir 1982]); Powell v Read's, Inc. (436 F Supp 369 [D Md 1977]); Grossman v Bernards Twp. Bd. of Educ. (11 FEP Cases 1196 [D NJ 1975], affd 538 F2d 319 [3d Cir 1976]); Holloway v Andersen & Co. (566 F2d 659 [9th Cir 1977]); Voyles v Davies Med. Ctr. (403 F Supp 456 [ND Cal [1975], affd 570 F2d 354 [9th Cir 1978]).

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I don't know enough details about what this teacher brings to the table that might compensate for the detracting weirdness-- So I personally can't say whether I think the person should be, or shouldn't be, a teacher.

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Most parents interviewed in Mendham last week said they would not have a problem telling children about the teacher who was a man last year but who now is a woman.

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Some parents who had been quoted as expressing concerns were no longer talking by last week. Maybe they got tired of seeing their quotes thrown around the Internet.

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