Before she was fired in 2013, Victoria Ramirez had worked for Barnes & Noble in California for six years. Her problems started when, as Tyson, she began taking hormones to become a woman. Though she still looked manly, she began painting her nails and growing out her hair, which her manager claimed bothered customers. When Ms Ramirez explained that she was becoming a woman, she was forced to keep it under wraps and banned from the women's toilet. When she called in sick with stress about this, she was fired. In May Barnes & Noble was sued for sex discrimination. In the current legal climate, the company looks unlikely to win.
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