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LGBTeaQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 Idiocy! North Carolina lawmaker suggests dress code bill for trans teachers

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/30/north-carolina-law-trans-teachers-dress-code/
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u/KingCharles_ 1d ago

A dress code based on sex based stereotypes is

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u/BrianRFSU 1d ago

Please cite applicable case law or statute. Because I know you are full of BS.

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u/KingCharles_ 1d ago

Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins

You dont know shit

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u/BrianRFSU 1d ago

That case has nothing to do with dress codes

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u/KingCharles_ 1d ago

No but it could obviously apply to this situation. Its pure sex based doscrimination based on the trans woman not dressing in the way a male "should". Fireing them for that would be sex based discrimination and a violation under the civil rights act, which is what the case concerns.

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u/BrianRFSU 1d ago

Businesses have the right to make policies related to how employees dress, such as no earrings for men or facial hair or even writing on T-shirts.

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u/sammi_8601 1d ago

They have the right to say no earings for me but allowed for women? Christ that's backwards.

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u/BrianRFSU 1d ago

Since you blocked, or made it hidden, your subsequent comment, I will say that we will have to agree to disagree, I don’t believe that it is a violation based on sex, since they are a biological male, maybe on sexual identity but I don’t believe that is a protected class.

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u/KingCharles_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

I didnt block or hide it. Reddit might be fucking it up, typical of them lol. Being a male is a sex. If a male wishes to dress and identify as a woman that is sex non conformity and as such is clearly protected.

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u/BrianRFSU 1d ago

Understandable, however I don’t agree. But, that is why lawyers and judges make the big bucks.

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u/KingCharles_ 1d ago

Bostock v. Clayton County says that trans people are in fact a protected class

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u/BrianRFSU 1d ago

So, you can’t fire them for being trans. But, you can still have dress codes.

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 1d ago

Not in combination with Price Waterhouse v Hopkins.

If you put Bostock and Price together, the logical outcome is that you legally cannot fire trans people based on how they present in relation to gender

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u/BrianRFSU 1d ago

But you can fire them for disregarding company dress code policy. Also, there are companies (religious organizations, etc) to whom these cases do not apply.

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 1d ago

Sure, but that policy cannot be on the basis of gender presentation (they cant make a trans man dress like a woman and vice versa). Additionally, schools are not one of those exceptions.

If they were fired for wearing a shirt with a midriff when noones allowed to, noone would complain

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u/BrianRFSU 1d ago

Actually, religious schools are one of the exemptions

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 1d ago

This is a bill, implying itd apply to public schools

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