Transsexual police officer wins $320,000 in Cincinnati bias case
Jet, March 17, 2003
TRANSSEXUAL POLICE OFFICER WINS $320,000 IN CINCINNATI BIAS CASE: Philecia Barnes (l) and her attorney, Alphonse Gerhardstein, talk to media at City Hall in Cincinnati after a federal court jury recently awarded $320,511 to Barnes, formerly Phillip Barnes, a transsexual police officer who said the city discriminated against her by denying her promotion to sergeant.
The jury ordered the city to pay the 22-year police veteran and former Marine Corps sergeant back wages and damages. Barnes, 43, said she will request a court order to force the city to reinstate her as a police sergeant. In 1999 Barnes became a probationary sergeant for six months, then was demoted to an officer's rank. Lawyers for Barnes said their client notified the city two years ago that she had changed her name and considered herself to be a woman.
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