That's not what a protected class is. A protected class is something like "gender", "race", or "religion". It's not "women", "black people", or "Jews". Discrim

That's not what a protected class is. A protected class is something like "gender", "race", or "religion". It's not "women", "black people", or "Jews". Discriminating based on gender or race, regardless of the gender or race in question, is illegal in most (probably all) states in the US. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group for a lot more details.