Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments that Could Redefine ‘Sex’ as ‘Gender Identity’

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments to redefine “sex” in federal law.

As Christian Headlines previously reported, the case centers on a Michigan Christian funeral home that fired a biological male employee who wished to wear a female uniform during a funeral and thus violating the business’ sex-specific dress code. When the employee sued, a lower court decided that the funeral home must allow their employee to dress as a woman based on the employee’s gender identity.

An appellate court later ruled that it’s “analytically impossible to fire an employee based on that employee’s status as a transgender person without being motivated, at least in part, by the employee’s sex.”

The ACLU believes, according to Buzzfeed News, that the funeral home violated a precedent set in 1989’s Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins hearing, in which a woman was denied partnership at her firm because she did not “act like a woman.” The discrimination, the court ruled, was based on gender stereotypes.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, who will argue the case on behalf of the funeral home, believes that redefining “sex” as “gender identity” would be dangerous.

“Americans should be able to rely on what the law says. Redefining ‘sex’ to mean ‘gender identity’ creates chaos, is unfair to women and girls, and puts employers in…