Transgender Discrimination: I Was Fired For Transitioning From Man To Woman (VIDEO)

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Afterwards, Juro faced even more discrimination. "I figured this has got to be illegal right? You can't do that to somebody. So I went and called up our state's civil rights division and they said 'no no, it's perfectly legal -- we don't have a problem with that.'

"And that was really for me when I started to understand not just the implications for my own life and the people around me, but that this had real political implications. Transitioning from male to female had real and serious political implications. I was literally giving up significant civil rights by doing so."

New Jersey passed a law in 2007 prohibiting workplace discrimination against transgender people. Still, Juro claimed that because of poor enforcement of the law, the transgender population must fight for its rights. "The burden of proof is always going to be on the person who is being discriminated against, not the company doing the discriminating."

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