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· 8/29/1984

Karen Frances ULANE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-Appellant

Citations

  • 742 F.2d 1081
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 19095
  • 35 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 34,675
  • 35 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1348

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  • concluding that discrimination against plaintiff was “not because she is female, but because she is transsexual”
  • suggesting that the “sex amendment was the gambit of a congressman seeking to scuttle adoption of the Civil Rights Act”
  • suggesting that the \sex amendment was the gambit of a congressman seeking to scuttle adoption of the Civil Rights Act\
  • construing \sex\ in Title VII narrowly to mean only anatomical sex rather than gender
  • construing \sex\ in Title VII narrowly to mean only anatomical sex rather than gender
  • construing “sex” in Title VII narrowly to mean only anatomical sex rather than gender

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Judges: Cummings, Wood, Dumbauld

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