LAKELAND, Fla. — A central Florida eye clinic has agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve a discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of a transgender employee who was terminated.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit which alleges the Lakeland Eye Clinic fired the employee after she started dressing as a woman and told her bosses she was transitioning from male to female.
The commission says the termination violates the Civil Rights Act.
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The commission says this is one of the first two lawsuits it’s ever filed alleging sex discrimination against a transgender individual.
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