As best we can tell, someone claiming to be a transgender “man” is really a girl who wants to be a guy and tries to look and dress the part, and takes the position that she really is a “he”. And a transgender “woman” is a guy wanting to be a girl and claims he is really a “she”. So, there is a girl that works at Amazon who claims to be a transgender “man.” Somehow (not very mysteriously we suppose, but it seems sort of curious nonetheless) she (oops, “he”) got herself (“himself”) pregnant.
So, in what must have been a pretty interesting conversation, she (“he”) told her (“his”) boss that she (“he”) was pregnant. Now she (“he”) claims she (“he”) was denied a raise as a result. And she (“he”) was harassed by other employees too – no surprise there. According to the article, she (“he”) “was harassed about which bathroom he was using, demoted, and denied safety accommodations for his pregnancy. In one instance cited in the lawsuit . . . [she (“he”)] was questioned for using the men’s restroom by another employee. ‘Aren’t you pregnant?’ the coworker asked.” Seems like a pretty fair question to us. But this is the world we live in.
Anyway, it’s an interesting legal conundrum and is likely to show up on a bar examination essay question at some point – do pregnancy discrimination laws apply to a she who acts and dresses like, and wants to be treated as, and claims that she actually is, and may have a legal right to be treated as, a he. If an employer has to treat a she like a he just because she wants it and she (“he”) claims to really be a he, how can that employer be discriminating against “him” on the basis of her (“his”) pregnancy? Sounds to us like this gal (“guy”) wants her (“his”) cake and wants to eat it too. Nothing like cherry-picking your gender, we suppose.
So she (“he”) wants to be a girl so she can take advantage of pregnancy discrimination law, but also wants to be a he so she (“he”) can take advantage of gender discrimination laws. They teach you in law school about arguing “in the alternative,” but this seems to be a little over the top. Well, we haven’t heard the end of this nonsense, not by a long shot.