{"id":5632,"date":"2011-04-14T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5632"},"modified":"2011-04-14T15:29:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T19:29:54","slug":"nj-transgender-man-fired-from-men-only-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5632","title":{"rendered":"NJ Transgender  Man Fired From  &#8216;Men-Only&#8217; Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HADDONFIELD, New Jersey &#8212; A transsexual New Jersey man has sued the drug-treatment center where he worked, claiming it discriminated against him when it fired him from a job that only a man can do: watching men urinate.<\/p>\n<p>Experts believe <strong>El&#8217;Jai Devoureau&#8217;s<\/strong> case is the first in the U.S. where a transgender employee has claimed an employer discriminated based on birth gender.<\/p>\n<p>The question at the heart of a case is whether someone who is living as a man and recognized by the government as a man is one when it comes to employment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Devoureau<\/strong>, 39, was born with female genitalia, but says in his legal complaint that he always considered himself male.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HADDONFIELD, New Jersey &#8212; A transsexual New Jersey man has sued the drug-treatment center where he worked, claiming it discriminated against him when it fired him from a job that only a man can do: watching men urinate. Experts believe El&#8217;Jai Devoureau&#8217;s case is the first in the U.S. where a transgender employee has claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}