vandy beth glen was fired in 2007 from her job with the georgia general assembly because she is transgender. before he fired her, glen's direct supervisor told her her gender expression was a natural and unsettling and fired her on the grounds that her gender transition was inappropriate and and would make other workers feel uncomfortable. ronality crump is a guy man and police sergeant. his supervisor verbally harassed him because he is gay, comparing him to one of the women in the department, minus the heels and other derogatory comments. when crump filed a complaint, he was transferred from a prestigious position to a less favorable one. we have decades of social science research that tell us those stories are repeated in workplaces across america. in 2008, general social survey found 42% of lesbian, gay and bisexual people had experienced employment discrimination because of their sexual orientation at some point in their lives, and 27% actually experienced that in the last five years. so it's common and recent. in the largest survey of transgender people to date, 47% of correspondents