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“A Painful Pink Slip”: Trans Employee Faces Termination

Filed under Diversity and Careers, On the Job
Posted by Libraries, March 16, 2007
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Newsweek National News, March 3, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17420981/site/newsweek/

Steven Stanton, the city manager in Largo, Florida, recently announced he is transsexual and is going to have sex reassignment surgery. After his announcement, there was a city commission meeting, and now he is on the road to being fired. Currently on “paid administrative leave,” he is planning to appeal the commission’s decision.

This announcement has stirred up controversy throughout the US as well as in Stanton’s community. He has received support from some members of the community who have urged him to sue and fight for his rights, as well as hatred emails from three different churches. Eggs have been thrown on his car, but he has also received flowers of support.

Stanton is being represented by Karen Doering, who is senior counsel member for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. To learn more about recent developments in this story, visit the NCLR site at http://nclrights.org/releases/pr-stevestantondiscrimination_florida030807.htm.

—Anne Detwiler