Transgender woman at center of the Supreme Court case fighting for LGBTQ workplace rights has died at 59

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• Aimee Stephens, the transgender woman behind the US Supreme Court case fighting LGBTQ workplace discrimination, has died. She was 59.
• Stephens served as a funeral home director in Michigan for six years before she was fired after her transition.
• She sued the funeral home and won in a lower court. The owners then appealed to the US Supreme Court, which heard arguments for the case in October 2019. A ruling is expected in July.
• The case was the first time the Supreme Court heard arguments for a civil rights case by a transgender person, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Aimee Stephens, the transgender woman at the center of the historic Supreme Court case concerning LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace, died on Tuesday at her home in Michigan. She was 59.

Stephens made history as the first transgender person whose civil rights case was heard by the Supreme Court, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. She worked as a funeral director for six years in Garden City, Michigan, but she was fired from her position after her transition in 2013.

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