DOJ argues in favor of transgender discrimination.

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does not protect transgender employees from discrimination, according to a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case.

Note the defendant in the case: Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC. One executive branch agency will soon oppose another before the highest court in the land.

The lawsuit seeks to overturn a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling earlier this year that a Detroit-area funeral home discriminated on the basis of sex when it fired a transgender woman. She had worked there for several...