"Title VII"

The lawsuit says students in Nuiqsut made racist threats in a classroom setting in 2017, and students were not appropriately disciplined.

Jennifer Fletcher, a state legislative librarian from Juneau, argued that the surgeries she wanted to get would have been covered if she weren’t transgender — and that’s discrimination based on her sex.

Alaska’s statewide and Anchorage anti-discrimination commissions are not required to offer protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people despite the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s interpretation that it is considered sex discrimination, which is already protected by law.