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In CASE 13.1 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v.R.G.and G.R.Harris Funeral Homes,Inc.(2016) ,the EEOC sued Funeral Homes on the basis of sex stereotyping after Funeral Homes fired a worker for coming to work in a skirt and jacket,considered female business attire,rather than pants and jacket.How did the court rule?


A) Because transgender status and gender identity are protected under Title VII,the court found that the "only reason that the EEOC cannot pursue a Title VII claim on behalf of Stephens."
B) Funeral Homes asserted that the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) 82 prohibited the EEOC from applying Title VII to force Funeral Homes to violate the "sincerely held religious beliefs" of Rost,Funeral Homes' owner.The court concurred and ruled in favor of Funeral Homes.
C) The EEOC contested that Rost's beliefs that allowing a Funeral Homes director who had been born a biological male to wear the skirt-suit uniform for female directors at work would violate God's command was not sincere.The court ruled in favor of the EEOC.
D) The court ruled that employers who discriminated against men because they wore dresses and makeup,or acted feminine,were not engaged in illegal sexual stereotyping.

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