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A Transgender Former Nike Contractor Sues, Saying Managers Failed to Protect Them

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I was looking for a thread particularly for Steeballz, and there are a few to choose from, decided to go with this.

 

Jazz Lyles, a former computer engineer at Nike's Beaverton headquarters, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the sportswear giant.

The lawsuit, filed this week in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleges Nike and Mainz Brady, an IT staffing firm based in San Mateo, Calif., exposed Lyles to gender identity-based discrimination and harassment and retaliation. (Mainz Brady didn't respond to a request for comment.)

Lyles identifies as transmasculine/nonbinary. That means Lyles was assigned the female gender at birth but identifies with masculinity and as a nonbinary.Documents show that before coming to work at Nike as a $62.50-an-hour programmer in 2017, Lyles specified they were transgender and wished to be referred to by the pronouns "they/them/their."

But from the beginning, Nike employees allegedly disregarded Lyles' requests, as WW first reported last year ("Just Say They," Sept. 26, 2018). People on the technical teams on which Lyles worked—which included Nike employees and independent contractors but which reported to Nike managers—allegedly repeatedly used the wrong pronouns, which is known as "misgendering."

Emails and other electronic messages show Lyles politely but firmly communicated with peers and managers, seeking to help them understand why being referred to by the correct pronouns was important. One colleague responded by greeting Lyles, "Hey, girl, what's up?" Another told them that using Lyles' pronouns was against her religion.

 

https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/12/17/a-transgender-former-nike-contractor-sues-saying-managers-failed-to-protect-them/

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The wrong pronouns are anti-nouns.

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Ugh, copied the wrong think in for the heading.

 

The issue I have with all this ####### is how it is being weaponised, now there was a Transmale where I worked a very long time age when it was a novelty, now I am sure no one expected that not using whatever might be what they want to be called could result in a civil or criminal action.

 

So if you can can sue for this can you also sue if say your name is Christopher and you are called Chris? My surname often gets misspelled, now an action?

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8 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

There is a strange obsession with transgender issues here. 

Nope 

 

It is their use by the Authoritarians as a.control measure.

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14 hours ago, Boiler said:

Ugh, copied the wrong think in for the heading.

 

The issue I have with all this ####### is how it is being weaponised, now there was a Transmale where I worked a very long time age when it was a novelty, now I am sure no one expected that not using whatever might be what they want to be called could result in a civil or criminal action.

 

So if you can can sue for this can you also sue if say your name is Christopher and you are called Chris? My surname often gets misspelled, now an action?

 

  Headline failed. Baiting attempt failed. Even failed with the spelling. Take it slower next time. 

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19 hours ago, Boiler said:

Ugh, copied the wrong think in for the heading.

 

The issue I have with all this ####### is how it is being weaponised, now there was a Transmale where I worked a very long time age when it was a novelty, now I am sure no one expected that not using whatever might be what they want to be called could result in a civil or criminal action.

 

So if you can can sue for this can you also sue if say your name is Christopher and you are called Chris? My surname often gets misspelled, now an action?

I can see that.  As government continues to trash the 1st Amendment, everything could become fair game.

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