Aimee Stephens, a transgender women, worked at the R.G. &. G.R Harris Funeral Homes and originally was dressing as a stereotypical male following the funeral home's male attire, but Stephens had intended to transition to female attire to better suit her gender identity. Thomas Rost the owner of the funeral home fired Stephens for not presenting herself as her natural born male assigned orientation and for dressing like a woman. Stephens opened a case at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, stating discrimination based on sex and gender but the district court sided with the funeral home stating, “that transgender status is not a protected trait under Title VII”. In the Sixth Circut Court of Appeals it was ruled that stephens was unlawfully fired based on sex discrimination which does protect transgender people. The United States Supreme Court ruled in 2020 against firing someone for being homosexual or transgender, as being discrimination based on sex.