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''[[Bostock v. Clayton County]]'', {{ussc|590|___|2020|el=no}}, <!--the case is decided, it is past tense-->was a [[List of landmark court decisions in the United States|landmark]] Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled (on June 15, 2020) that Title VII of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] protects employees against discrimination because of their [[gender identity]] (or sexual orientation).<ref name="auto2">''Bostock v. Clayton County'', {{ussc|volume=590|year=2020|docket=17-1618}}.</ref><ref name="opinion">[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf Supreme Court Ruling 2020-06-15] (pages 1–33 in the linked document)</ref> A plaintiff in the case was [[Aimee Stephens]], an openly transgender woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/supreme-court-transgender-women-aimee-stephens-victory.html|title=The Supreme Court Victory for Transgender Women Is a Win for All Women|date=June 15, 2020|website=Slate}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/gay-transgender-rights-indivisible-supreme-court.html|title=Gay Rights and Trans Rights Are Indivisible. SCOTUS Just Showed Why.|first=Alexander|last=Chen|date=June 18, 2020|website=Slate}}</ref>
In July 2023, at the 132nd DAR Continental Congress presided over by President General [[Pamela Rouse Wright]], the [[Daughters of the American Revolution|National Society Daughters of the American Revolution]] voted to add an amendment to their bylaws protecting transgender women from discrimination on the basis of biological sex in their membership application processes.<ref>{{cite news |last= Zurick|first= Maura|date= July 26, 2023|title= Daughters of the American Revolution Members Quit Over Transgender Fears |url= https://www.newsweek.com/daughters-american-revolution-must-accept-transgender-members-1815641|work= [[Newsweek]]|location= [[Washington, D.C.]]|access-date= August 22, 2023}}</ref>
Some sexologists have estimated that the amount of individuals that identify as transgender in the United States has almost reached twenty million.<ref name="D 2016 p. 8">{{cite book | last=D | first=D.J.B.P. | title=Being Transgender: What You Should Know | publisher=ABC-CLIO | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-4408-4525-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uMJHDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 | access-date=2023-06-24 | page=8}}</ref><ref name="J 2020 p. 187">{{cite book | last=J | first=M.L. | title=The Plasticity of Sex: The Molecular Biology and Clinical Features of Genomic Sex, Gender Identity and Sexual Behavior | publisher=Elsevier Science | year=2020 | isbn=978-0-12-815969-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wWW8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA187 | access-date=2023-06-24 | page=187}}</ref>
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