Publication
Legal Alert – Could Innocent Employers Go to Jail? Sex, Gender Identity and Phoenix’s New Criminal Ordinance
by Sara J. Agne and Robert H. Feinberg
Opponents of newly approved amendments to the city of Phoenix’s Human Relations Ordinance (the Ordinance) had worried that the amendments could result in criminal penalties for employers and others who might bar transgender people from using the restrooms designated for the gender with which they identify.
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