#OnThisDay in 2020, the Supreme Court ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is a form of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This landmark decision affirmed that employers cannot fire or otherwise discriminate against employees for being gay, lesbian, or transgender.

Listen to the original PBS NewsHour report in the archive: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-0ef98509c90