Big SCOTUS Case: 5th-Generation Funeral Home Sued Because They Wouldn’t Let Male Employee Dress As A Woman

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a case in which one side wants to usurp the role of Congress by redefining the word “sex” in federal law to mean “gender identity.” In R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Harris Funeral Homes, a fifth-generation family business serving grieving families in the Detroit area for over 100 years, is being targeted because an employee hired in 2007 as a funeral director  who agreed to follow the company’s sex-specific dress code told the owner six years later that he would start presenting himself as a woman and dressing like one when dealing with grieving families.

The owner, Tom Rost, told the employee, Anthony Stephens, that he could not agree with Stephens’ plans, as that would mean Stephens would be sharing the women’s restroom with women from grieving families as well as one 80-year-old woman working at the funeral home. That triggered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to sue Rost.