For Immediate Release
June 15, 2020

NAPABA Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on LGBTQ Worker Protections

WASHINGTON — Today, in a 6-3 landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal anti-discrimination laws protect gay and transgender workers from job discrimination in a trio of cases consolidated in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia. The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) applauds the Court for affirming the rights of LGBTQ individuals, and that they cannot be discriminated against with respect to their employment based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

“NAPABA has and will continue to be supportive of LGBTQ equality,” said Bonnie Lee Wolf, President of NAPABA. “We recognize that there are legal, cultural and social issues specific to the LGBTQ community. We are pleased that the Supreme Court recognizes that discriminatory employment practices due to a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity have no place in the workplace. NAPABA also remains committed to ensuring that LGBTQ individuals are protected from all forms of discrimination beyond the workplace, including housing, service, and everywhere else.”

Today’s decision would not have been possible but for the decades of hard work by civil rights attorneys, activists, and supporting organizations, who have fought case after case, challenging the status quo and laying down a foundation of legal precedents that were relied on by the Court in this decision.

NAPABA’s policy resolution for LGBTQ equality can be found here. The Supreme Court decision can be found here.