[GA] Wife being bullied and discriminated at work for being intersex. : legaladvice

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Around Thanksgiving my wife has been hanging out with some of her co-workers and they were talking about having children in the future. She's intersex as she has CAIS and the complications from it caused her to be infertile, so she explained to them in-depth about how CAIS works and whatnot. So she has an ignorant and very conservative co-worker that I'll call her B. When she mentioned that she's infertile as is genetically male, B immediatelly flipped out, called her a freak and a mentally ill man, and then just stopped talking to her.

So since the start of this week here's what happened. B, who unfortunately is also close to my wife's boss, went apeshit over her being "genetically male" and repeatedly complained to him about my wife. The boss capitulated and now my wife is only allowed to use the male restroom in her workplace so B doesn't get uncomfortable and rumors have been circulating around the office that my wife is a man, and just today when she left work someone vandalized her car with the word "faggot" written in spray-paint. I want to know if there's any recourse she can take against her boss and B over this shit as these two days have been absolute hell for her. Thanks

Captain_Hampockets on November 28th, 2018 at 16:19 UTC »

Goddammit, I hate people.

puffermammal on November 28th, 2018 at 15:50 UTC »

I don't want to help them hone their arguments or anything, but that is not even the correct type of bigotry. Pretty much every restrictive 'bathroom bill' requires people to use the restroom assigned to the gender on their state ID. The gender assigned on her state ID is female, and almost definitely has been since birth. The bigots are not even on their side on this.

This is sort of like when some racist uses the wrong slur or stereotype, and I want to make fun of them for not even being able to be racist correctly, but I don't want to, like, give them racism lessons.

severe_delays on November 28th, 2018 at 14:15 UTC »

...and just today when she left work someone vandalized her car with the word "faggot" written in spray-paint.

Shouldn't that be investigated as a hate crime as well? Nobody on LA seems to have touched on that aspect.