#GAReads | 'A trailblazer': woman at center of US trans rights case dies aged 59

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“'A trailblazer': woman at center of US trans rights case dies aged 59”:

Aimee Stephens, the woman at the center of the most important LGBTQ+ rights case to come before the US supreme court since it ruled in favor of marriage equality in 2015, has died.

Stephens, who was fired by a funeral home near Detroit, Michigan, in 2013 after she said she no longer wanted to be recognized as a man, died on Tuesday.

She was awaiting the court’s decision on whether whether federal civil rights law protects transgender people, which is expected in late June.

Read the full article at The Guardian here…