HARTFORD, Conn. — A transgender Connecticut police officer fired last June has filed a lawsuit alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation and wrongful termination.
Francesca Quaranta sued the city of Middletown, the mayor, the police chief and three police officers on Jan. 9 in Hartford Superior Court.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for lost wages, emotional distress and other reasons.
Quaranta says her law enforcement career began a long and harsh decline in 2012 after she announced she was transgender. She says she was subjected to repeated discrimination and harassment that ended with her firing.
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Mayor Daniel Drew says Quaranta’s firing wasn’t discriminatory.
Drew says Quaranta failed a fitness for duty evaluation, refused to participate in a second evaluation and rejected the city’s repeated attempts to return her to work.
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