Aimee Stephens (December 7, 1960 – May 12, 2020) was an American funeral director known for her fight for civil rights for transgender people.
Harris Funeral Home in Garden City in 2013 after she said she would wear appropriate women's business attire at work.
Stephens started a legal case, arguing that she was protected under Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The funeral home owner argued that since he would have required everyone to dress according to the gender they had been biologically assigned at birth, he hadn't discriminated against her.
[3] The Supreme Court agreed with Stephens, with Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledging that "Congress in 1964 likely did not have the LGBTQ community in mind when it banned discrimination based on sex.