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Originally Posted by sosed

Good news, I hope more countries will follow with law protection against discriminations. The bad thing is, that you still have to have money to pay lawyer in such cases.

In the United States, cases before the EEOC are typically brought by lawyers on a contingency basis (meaning they take a percentage of the damages that are awarded or the back pay that is won), or by an advocacy group that assumes the legal costs. In this particular case, it was the Transgender Law Center (TLC), not the individual plaintiff, that absorbed the legal costs.

One thing about the U.S. legal system that may differ from other countries is that the barrier to bringing discrimination cases before the courts or agencies such as EEOC is relatively low, because of such advocacy groups, pro bono work by attorneys, or the ability to join together hundreds and even thousands of cases as class action suits.