USA Today by Susan Miller 5/18/2020
'Providing care today; face dismissal tomorrow': LGBTQ health workers on the front lines as Supreme Court weighs job protections
For the past two months, physician assistant Mia McDonald and Dr. Ly Pham – one in North Carolina, the other in Louisiana – have been steady warriors in a battle with a beast that has ravaged this nation.
Their spirits have sagged with defeat, been buoyed by hope. There have been moments of calm, hours of exhaustion.
But an uneasy reality haunts these LGBTQ health care workers on the front lines in the coronavirus pandemic: They are employed in states where they could be fired for their sexual orientation and gender identity.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon in a trio of landmark cases that could guarantee federal protections to LGBTQ workers such as McDonald and Pham. The timing couldn’t be more urgent, advocates say.
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