{"id":7777,"date":"2025-02-24T15:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:07:41","slug":"liberty-university-loses-bid-to-toss-transgender-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7777","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University Loses Bid to Toss Transgender Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender former employee of Liberty University can proceed with her claims that the school discriminated against her when she was fired after disclosing her transition.<\/p>\n<p>Although Title VII contains exemptions for religious institutions like Liberty to discriminate in hiring decisions based on an employee&rsquo;s religious beliefs, &ldquo;a religious institution engages in sex discrimination when firing someone for their transgender status, even if that decision is motivated by religion,&rdquo; Judge Norman K. Moon of the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia wrote in a Feb. 21 opinion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gpwU7IguHZI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/liberty-university-loses-bid-to-toss-transgender-workers-suit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender former employee of Liberty University can proceed with her claims that the school discriminated against her when she was fired&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7777\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University Loses Bid to Toss Transgender Suit<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[606],"class_list":["post-7777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-loses-bid-to-toss-transgender-suit","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-21r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}