EEOC rules gender identity covered under Title VII

http://www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=7288

In the USA, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ruled that gender identity is covered under the portion of the law prohibiting discrimination in hiring on the basis of sex/gender. It is interesting that the ruling was made despite the failure of the ENDA law, and that the ruling does not include direct mention of the GLB. However, the members of the GLB are already covered in part by their biological sex, while this ruling protects those gender variant people. It is further interesting that ENDA failed in Congress due to the inclusion of Transgender in the alphabet soup of GLB and T.