Transgender worker suing Nike for
$1.1 million cites pronoun abuses
CBS News,
by
Sarah Min
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/20/2019 8:44:40 PM
A transgender former Nike contractor is seeking $1.1 million in damages from the sporting goods giant for allegedly allowing gender identity-based harassment. According to a civil lawsuit filed this week, Nike and Mainz Brady Group, a staffing firm that hired workers for Nike, discriminated against computer engineer Jazz Lyles, who identifies as transmasculine and prefers the pronouns they/them/their. The complaint was filed with Multnomah Circuit Court in Oregon. During Lyles' tenure at Nike — from May 2017 to September 2018 — the engineer was repeatedly "misgendered" by coworkers, the complaint said. While Lyles notified management about the issue multiple times
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Moritz55 12/20/2019 8:49:00 PM (No. 268002)
Good grief!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/20/2019 8:50:58 PM (No. 268003)
Should be laughed out of court.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/20/2019 8:51:04 PM (No. 268004)
If a judge doesn't throw out this case in .05 milliseconds I will be very angry. Think about it. Is it now up to every employee to know exactly which pronouns apply to their co-workers? And if they mess up, the company pays out $1M? As the OP said, insanity.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 12/20/2019 8:56:29 PM (No. 268005)
1+ million for wrong pronouns? Pulease!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
padiva 12/20/2019 9:00:49 PM (No. 268008)
The universal pronoun will be 'it.'
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We are being harassed by mentally unstable people who demand that we approve of their sick delusions. It's high time we fought back.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
John C 12/20/2019 9:03:50 PM (No. 268010)
How about the case of a citizen tearing down and burning a gay (etc) flag and given 15 years in jail for a "hate" crime.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
panther361 12/20/2019 9:06:26 PM (No. 268012)
I'm afraid we shall see no bottom to this meddelsome ailment.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/20/2019 9:09:46 PM (No. 268016)
If only someone could use the unclaimed balls of Jazz Lyles,, and go tell the entire Multnomah Circuit Court in Oregon to go pound sand, go back to the Oregon Code Annotated pocket parts and get a life, a job and a real law degree. Don't hold your breath; apparently there is money in frivolous law suits.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/20/2019 9:34:24 PM (No. 268027)
This person created the confusion so why should confused people be liable for his psychological condition?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
snakeoil 12/20/2019 9:39:12 PM (No. 268031)
Mercy. What is the world coming to? Can I adopt the title El Supremo and sue anyone who doesn't address me as such? I've been called a lot of stuff in my lifetime. Just shrug it off and get on with the rest of your life.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
scottj 12/20/2019 9:40:47 PM (No. 268033)
Normally this would tick me off but since it's Nike I love it. Their chickens have come home to roost. As for the transgender how about we just refer to you as IT?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Sandbar 12/20/2019 10:39:01 PM (No. 268049)
I propose using a good old Y'all for every thing/body singular and plural. Sue me!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
curious1 12/20/2019 11:20:18 PM (No. 268062)
Trying to suppress freedom of speech.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rama41 12/20/2019 11:46:09 PM (No. 268070)
This is called "compelled speech", a concept already mandated by law in Canada and championed here by Democrats.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Vesicant 12/21/2019 12:49:37 AM (No. 268078)
Its picture is easy to find. It's about what you'd expect, maybe a little worse.
2 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
emmajustin 12/21/2019 1:21:14 AM (No. 268081)
The most I will do for someone this screwed up is call it an it. I will not change the English language to suit it's mental disorder.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 12/21/2019 1:29:07 AM (No. 268084)
"transmasculine"
What the hell does that even mean?
Is it a guy who pretends to be a girl or a girl who pretends to be a guy?
I have no idea. Mental illness is confusing.
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The world is not going to play along with your fantasy de jour.
This person is too focused on their gender above everything else.
We are here to do a job, not to talk about your genitals, or lack thereof.
Next!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chumley 12/21/2019 2:49:47 AM (No. 268108)
I identify as a Border Collie. I insist you refer to me as "Good Boy". I want my food in a bowl on the floor and I have to be taken out to do my business on the company lawn. Oh yeah, and I sniff butts. Get used to it.
If you refuse my demands, pay day. Cha Ching!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chase9365 12/21/2019 4:46:39 AM (No. 268134)
My head may explode. Just call it, it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/21/2019 4:56:05 AM (No. 268137)
Nike should just give him/her/it a lifetime supply of Rainbow color running shoes. Will that satisfy their/she/his/its claim? Throw in a couple of Colon Kaepernick shoes for variety.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/21/2019 6:48:47 AM (No. 268182)
I'm about ready to give all of these people to Iran.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 12/21/2019 8:37:57 AM (No. 268265)
I still love the name given to these people by another dotter—-s/he-it.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
kono 12/21/2019 12:51:41 PM (No. 268566)
She's such a colossal doofus, If I ever run into her, I think I'll refer to her as hay, hem, hair.
She rebels against God, refusing to respect the manifest will of her Creator, and then dares to condemn her coworkers for refusing to respect her will regarding what word people use to refer to her.
Or maybe I'll just call her Ma'am.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
kono 12/21/2019 1:03:28 PM (No. 268573)
Dorks! The gender-confused and their enablers in the enemedia changed their vocabulary again and expect the normal world to follow. We caught on that "trans man" was a woman pretending to be a man, and vice-versa. What the hell is "transmasculine" supposed to mean? I refuse to waste even a second trying to figure that out.
They are not sane, and while I will neither suggest nor support violence against them, I refuse to play their game. Just plain no.
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