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Aug 4, 2011, 7:32 pm

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Originally Posted by jtodd

A transgender Transportation Security Administration agent who was fired from her job at Los Angeles International Airport for using the women's restroom has received back pay and a five-figure award for pain and suffering as part of a civil rights settlement.

From the article:

Ashley Yang says she was ordered to dress like a man, pat down men and use the men's restroom after she informed a human resources manager that a background check would reveal she was born male and hadn't undergone sex reassignment surgery.

This could only have happened if she had been hired and was at work prior to undergoing a background check.

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