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What the Supreme Court's decision on LGBT employment discrimination will mean for transgender Americans

  • Written by Christopher Carpenter, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics and Director of the Vanderbilt LGBT Policy Lab, Vanderbilt University
imageTransgender activist Aimee Stephens sat outside the Supreme Court as the court held oral arguments dealing with workplace discrimination.Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

In a landmark decision, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that gay men, lesbian women, bisexual individuals and transgender people – individuals whose sex assigned at...

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