Then we got the Bostock decision, which is a US Supreme Court decision, prior to the more recent appointments to the Supreme Court that declared an employment discrimination. The Bostock decision...declared...gender discrimination should be inclusive of both sexual orientation and gender identity, therefore making it illegal everywhere in the United States to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender Identity in employment decisions. In that context, that decision came down. And what I found, as soon as that was law, is that most of my Republican colleagues would be okay to codify that, which is partly what the Equality act does. (21:45–22:17)
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