A 2nd Trump Move Has Ticked Off LGBT Supporters

On Wednesday, President Trump angered the LGBT community by banning transgender people from the military. 

But his administration made a second, lower-profile move the same day that has similarly angered the gay community. As BuzzFeed reports, the Justice Department filed a legal brief arguing that a federal civil rights law does not protect gay workers from discrimination. 

The case is actually a private one between an employee and an employer, though it's being closely watched as a matter of precedent, reports the New York Times. The employee is Donald Zarda, a skydiving instructor who was fired by Long Island's Altitude Express in 2010. The firing came after he told a female customer that he was gay, to make her feel more comfortable about being tethered so closely to him during the jump. Her boyfriend complained, and Zarda got canned.

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