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Podcast: The Gender Justice Brief
Episode: Justice for Reyzl: Standing up to LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination
Description: Justice for Reyzl: Standing up to LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination
Host: Noah Parrish, Gender Justice Communications
Director
Guest: Brittany Stewart, Gender Justice Senior Staff
Attorney
In August 2024, Gender Justice and co-counsel Wanta Thome PLC filed a discrimination lawsuit against
the Academy of Holy Angels, a Catholic high school in Richfield, Minnesota, and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis after they effectively terminated Reyzl Grace, a staff librarian, when she came out as trans.
Reyzl Grace’s story highlights the importance of ensuring that no employer in Minnesota has carte blanche to di...