Aimee Stephens was fired in 2013 after revealing to her employer that she intended to come back to work as a woman.
Aimee Stephens, at her home in Michigan. By Meagan Flynn Meagan Flynn Morning Mix reporter Email Bio Follow April 30 at 7:03 AM The letter that Aimee Stephens wrote to save her life also upended it, in more ways than she could have anticipated.
She presented the letter to her employer on July 31, 2013, revealing her intention to come to work as a woman. Her boss folded it up and put it in his pocket, saying nothing more than “Okay.”Stephens’s termination is one of three cases that the high court agreed to hear last week that each tackle the long unsettled question of whether federal anti-discrimination laws apply to employees based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
She was about 5 when she began to believe she was somehow different, more interested in playing with dolls than with the other neighborhood boys, she said. But growing up in a conservative Southern Baptist family in Fayetteville, N.C., Stephens said she was never exposed to transgender people, or to any side of the gay community. Her church, she said, was “definitely against it.”
But while it was a breakthrough, she stopped short of expressing herself at work — fearing the exact outcome that ultimately unfolded. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Harris Funeral Homes in 2014, arguing that the funeral home had engaged in sex discrimination against Stephens. Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit agreed.
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