Trump | LGBT+ workplace discrimination could become legal in US

On June 26 2016, the US Supreme Court passed legislation that legalised same-sex marriage across the country after confirming that refusing to do so would be in violation of the US constitution.

The landmark move was celebrated across the nation; even the iconic White House, in which the President resides whilst in term, was clad in the rainbow flag of the LGBT+ community to signify its jubilation over the ruling.

Little more than four years later, the US is in the process of reversing legislation that protects firing an employee simply due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. The Trump Administration, now infamous for its controversial comments about homosexuality and the LGBT+ community, urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule that LGBT+ people could be fired based on their admission of belonging to this group.

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The move comes as part of a two-year campaign on behalf of the current President’s administration to reverse the protections that this community secured under President Obama. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, it is illegal to discriminate against workers ‘because of sex,’ yet the administration argued that these rules don’t ban discrimination against LGBT+ or transgender workers.