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A trans woman & her husband are suing Amazon after a coworker tried to kill
them

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   By Alex Bollinger Thursday, August 10, 2017

   A trans woman & her husband are suing Amazon after a coworker tried to
   kill them
   Photo: CrowdJustice/TLDEF

   A married couple from Kentucky is suing Amazon for anti-trans
   discrimination and harassment that led up to a near-fatal incident.

   Dane Lane and Allegra Schawe-Lane applied to work at an Amazon
   warehouse in northern Kentucky in October, 2014. Schawe-Lane, who is
   transgender, said that she applied to work at Amazon because of its
   reputation as LGBTQ-friendly.

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   Management also participated in the harassment, refusing to use
   Schawe-Lane’s first name and instead using her first name from before
   she transitioned, which they also printed on her ID badge. The
   warehouse improperly calculated her hours worked, resulting in lost
   wages, and refused to correct their work when she complained.
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   grounds for a lawsuit.

   Their case is being handled by the Transgender Legal Defense &
   Education Fund (TLDEF). Two years ago, TLDEF honored Amazon with a
   Freedom Award for its television series Transparent. The Freedom Award
   is for “extraordinary contributions to the advancement of transgender
   rights.”

   “We call on Amazon to examine the disconnect between the message of its
   hit show Transparent and the discrimination perpetrated against Allegra
   and Dane,” TLDEF executive director Jillian Weiss said in a statement.
   “We have a company that touts its transgender friendliness. Yet in
   Kentucky, when a transgender person comes and says, ‘Look, I’m being
   harassed,’ they get no help.”

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   rights and labor laws, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act,
   because Amazon employees viewed Schawe-Lane as disabled because she’s
   trans.
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   Kentucky, TLDEF, Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund

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