Legal Question in Employment Law in Missouri

Transvestite in gender specific job

Does a female impersonator have the legal right to hold a job that is gender specific (female)? I.E. as a residential monitor for a women's shelter


Asked on 2/20/03, 1:06 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Mark Reiter

Re: Transvestite in gender specific job

Were you fired because they found out you weren't a female? Without the underlying facts, it's impossible to respond. I can tell you that impersonating a female doesn't legally, or biologically, make you a female, otherwise it wouldn't be called impersonating. Thus, if the job is only open to females you have to be a female to get the job.

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Answered on 2/20/03, 2:28 pm


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