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Increasingly courts are grappling with cases involving persons who identify themselves as transgendered or as having a “gender identity disorder” that causes them to identify with a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. How would you deal with each of these scenarios?

You are a Dean at Yeshiva University, an orthodox Jewish university whose parents, alumni, and financial supporters tend to be socially conservative. One of your faculty members has just been tenured after five years of teaching as a male. He writes you a letter, indicating that he will be teaching as a woman. “Jay” will be “Joy,” from now on. The president of your university suggests that you place Joy on fully paid leave until she can find another job

One of your employees, a “male” editor, has started to come to work dressed as a woman, and informs you that he is undergoing gender transition therapy. Other workers are uncomfortable with him using the female restroom, and several have made comments about how disruptive it is to have him presenting as a woman.

You are the human relations director at a small company in Indiana. The company has a dress code that requires male employees to maintain a “conservative, socially acceptable general appearance, with hair above the collar and without earrings or other piercings.” Recently you have received customer complaints that one of your sales associates has been wearing earrings, makeup, and long hair. When you call him in to speak to you, he explains he suffers from gender identity disorder, and has continued the transition from male to female that he began before being hired. Creed V Family Express Corp.