On September 25, 2014, the EEOC filed lawsuits in Florida and Michigan accusing employers of discriminating against transgendered employees. These are the first two cases ever filed seeking to protect transgender workers under Title VII.

In the Florida Case, EEOC v. Lakeland Eye Clinic,  the EEOC claims that Lakeland terminated an employee, Branson, in

“Mia” Macy applied for a job with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and interviewed as a male candidate.  A former police detective from Phoenix relocating to San Francisco, Macy was repeatedly told by persons she interviewed with that she would be given the job she applied for.  Some time after interviewing, but before