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A transgendered woman, who lost a job offer because of her sexual status, has won a potentially groundbreaking sex discrimination lawsuit. Diane Schroer was offered a job at the Library of Congress as David Schroer. However, when David attended his first meeting with his future boss, Schroer told her that he would be transitioning to a woman before starting the job. The next day, the job offer was retracted. Finding that sex discrimination law applies to transgendered women, a federal court judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that the Library of Congress discriminated against Diane Schroer when it offered her the job and then rescinded it after learning she was transgendered.  For more than 25 years, David Schroer was a star in the U.S. Army, rising through the ranks to become a Special Forces commander while leading a classified anti-terrorism unit involved in covert operations.
That all changed when Schroer abruptly retired from the military and made a shocking announcement that stunned both his colleagues and family. He would no longer be Col. David Schroer, because he is now Diane Schroer, a transsexual.
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