Lopez v. River Oaks Imaging & Diagnostic Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• Title VII applies to sex stereotyping claim* of transgender plaintiff
• “[T]ranssexuality is not a bar to [a] sex stereotyping claim. Title VII is violated when an employer discriminates against any employee, transsexual or not, because he or she has failed to act or appear sufficiently masculine or feminine enough for an employer.”
• “ ‘[T]ranssexuality is not a bar to [the plaintiffs] sex stereotyping claim. Title VII is violated when an employer discriminates against any employee, transsexual or not, because he or she has failed to act or appear sufficiently masculine or feminine enough for an-employer.’”
• “The Fifth Circuit consistently holds that when a party does not address an issue in his brief to the district court, that failure constitutes a waiver on appeal. By analogy, failure to brief an argument in the district court waives that argument in that court.”
• “Title VII and Price Waterhouse . . . do not make any distinction between a transgendered litigant who fails to conform to traditional gender stereotypes and [a] ‘macho’ female who . . . is perceived by others to be in non-conformity with traditional gender stereotypes.”
• “The Fifth Circuit makes it clear that when a party does not address an issue in his brief to the district court, that failure constitutes a waiver on appeal. By analogy, failure to brief an argument in the district court waives that argument in that court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).