https://www.westernjournal.com/nikes-liberal-agenda-backfires-ex-employee-sues-p...Nike's Liberal Agenda Backfires as Ex-Employee Sues Over 'Preferred Pronouns'
People walk by a Nike store in New York on Sept. 5, 2018. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
By C. Douglas Golden
Published December 24, 2019 at 9:08am
Lie down with liberal dogs, wake up with liberal fleas.
Nike is one of the most identifiably left-of-center corporations in America, something that became abundantly clear this summer when it recalled a pair of shoes with the Betsy Ross flag on them because endorser Colin Kaepernick — a quarterback who hasn’t quarterbacked in several years but has staked out quite a viable career in activism and/or complaining that the NFL is somehow keeping him from quarterbacking because of that activism sideline — said the Betsy Ross flag carried connotations of slavery with it.
While that shoe wasn’t quite acceptable to the suzerains of swoosh back in Oregon, they did recently announce a shoe commemorating the first day that Kaepernick knelt for the national anthem as a member of the San Francisco 49ers.
At least we now know what’s worth venerating in Nike-land.
However, the veneration of preferred gender pronouns apparently doesn’t go deep enough — which is why Nike is now getting sued by a former employee who says people wouldn’t call her “they/them/their.”
That’s how Jazz Lyles wanted to be referred to. According to CBS News, Lyles — a computer engineer who was a contractor for the company from May 2017 to September 2018 — identifies as transmasculine.
According to Dictionary.com, transmasculine is “noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.” This doesn’t mean the individual necessarily identifies as male, merely that her gender identity is further on the spectrum toward being masculine.
Lyles filed suit in Multnomah Circuit Court in Oregon last week against Nike and Mainz Brady Group, the staffing company that hired her, for $1.1 million. In the suit, Lyles alleges that she was frequently “misgendered” by other Nike employees and that the company didn’t do anything to stop it.
Jazz Lyles identifies as “transmasculine nonbinary” & uses “they/them” pronouns. They was a computer engineer at Nike’s headquarters in Oregon, making $62.50 an hour. They has launched a civil rights lawsuit claiming employees at Nike misgendered them. https://t.co/gSfywl2mX4
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 19, 2019
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