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This is what federal courts have been recently ruling most often, so it is nothing new. The San Francisco court is known as the most liberal of the federal courts though, so relief from such discrimination is more likely to be successful at this time litigating under state or local laws, if in a place that has such.
Bill
Frankly I don't see how they get to such a ruling. It's counter-logical and against freedom of expression (to require short hair in men and to force women to wear make-up).
I guess freedom and work are not considered to go together?
I must admit I've had problems myself with grooming standards when considering a job (I haven't applied to jobs I knew would discriminate based on such), I have and love my long waist-lenght hair and will not decide to cut it for some standard and I don't see why it would be bad if a man was to do the same. While I may also appreciate make-up, I would not like to be forced to wear it all the time if I didn't feel like it either.
Of course it gives even more way to bias when you consider I'm a girl who's still legally considered a male. So my solution that probably would not be good enough for others - was that I stopped working in order to transition, in order to avoid such bias.
Sara
