In a decision hailed by advocates for transgender people, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that a California woman who was denied a job at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after revealing that she was transitioning from her former life as a man can seek legal redress under sex-discrimination regulations.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/us/sex-discrimination-protection-extended-to-transgender-woman.html?src=rechp