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Regarding #3, having a bank agent state on a recorded call “well, you don’t sound female” seems like a good way to get sued by a protected class.
by alasdair_ 6y ago
Regarding #3, having a bank agent state on a recorded call “well, you don’t sound female” seems like a good way to get sued by a protected class.
- ConcernedCoder 6y agothat's not discrimination, might be a bit insulting, but that's not against the law...
- alasdair_ 6y agoThere are a lot of federal regulations that ensure equal access to banking based on ethnicity, gender and veteran status. If the bank in question has literally never dealt with federal funds (e.g. FHA mortgages) then they may be exempt but this does not apply to most consumer banks. EDIT: The Equal Credit Protection Act and the Fair Housing Act explicitly covers gender and sex as protected classes. Very few consumer banks in the US are not covered by these acts.
- TomMarius 6y agoI had that happen to me while doing the same (trying to get my girlfriend off insurance she didn't want). I said I am ill and that was it, I had to know her 'birth number' though (date of birth + four numbers). Am European.
- aiethicsthread 6y agoWhich? Trans people aren't a protected class in the US.
- kube-system 6y agoYou are mistaken. If it wasn't clear about what 'sex' meant in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it was made more clear a couple of months ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Trans people aren't a protected class in the US. Technically but not materially true, since gender identity discrimination, like other forms of conformance-to-sex-stereotype discrimination, has been found by the Supreme Court to be a form of sex discrimination.