Tarrant County Community College

Fort Worth, TX 76102-7247

HRC: Texas appeals court ruling ensures state-level protections for LGBTQ employees

By David Yates | Friday, Mar 12, 2021 @ 10:34am

WASHINGTON — Today, Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, responded to the news that the Texas 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Tarrant County Community College v. Sims, that Texas’s state law prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex also provides protections against discrimination for LGBTQ workers.