BOSTON — Attorney General Maura Healey joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing a brief in support of the rights of the more than 20 million LGBTQ+ Americans to live, work, and pursue education free from discrimination.
Under U.S. Supreme Court precedent, federal protections against sex-based discrimination necessarily guard against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in both schools and the workplace. However, a group of states, led by Tennessee, challenged recent guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a case currently before the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which seeks to undermine the established interpretation of the law and its protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
“All Americans are deserving of fair and equal treatment,” said AG Healey. “We urge the Court to uphold these critical protections that help ensure our workplaces and schools are treating LGBTQ+ residents with respect and dignity.”
In the brief filed in Tennessee v. Department of Education, the coalition highlights the pervasive harms of such discrimination and urges the appellate court to reject this attack on LGBTQ+ rights.
Discrimination on the basis of sex against LGBTQ+ individuals is especially damaging in employment and education, the contexts addressed by the two guidance documents at issue in this appeal....
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