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Transgender man sues Amazon for gender-based harassment and discrimination claiming he was denied a promotion after telling his manager he was pregnant

A transgender man is suing Amazon claiming he was denied a promotion after telling his manager he was pregnant.
Shaun Simmons, who works at the Amazon fulfillment center in Princeton, New Jersey, filed a federal lawsuit against the company for pregnancy and gender-based harassment and discrimination.
Simmons claims he was harassed by coworkers and denied a promotion after disclosing his pregnancy.
He also alleges he was demoted to a role where he had to lift heavy items, despite his pregnancy, and – when he complained to human resources about it – was put on unpaid leave.
Simmons began working at the New Jersey fulfillment center in January 2015 and was promoted to process assistant in 2018.
He claims he then told his supervisor Mike Menno about his pregnancy in June 2019.
Menno then told another supervisor Tyler Houpt and the news quickly spread across the workplace, according to the lawsuit.
Simmons claims colleagues began harassing him including one worker questioning why he was using the men’s bathroom if he was pregnant.
‘Aren’t you pregnant?’ a coworker allegedly asked.
Simmons alleges the two supervisors also started criticizing his performance to get him demoted.
Simmons claims he filed a complaint to the human resources department and was placed on paid leave.
He returned from leave and was demoted to the role of item picker, where he was required to lift ‘large bags of dog food and other heavy items’ despite being pregnant, the suit says.
When Simmons complained to human resources that lifting the heavy items was causing him abdominal pain, he was placed on paid leave again in July, the suit states.
Simmons claims he was told to get a doctor’s note detailing any workplace accommodations he needed due to his pregnancy.
He claims he did this but his accommodations were denied by the company.
Then, in September of that year, the company withdrew an offer of a promotion at another warehouse and placed him on unpaid leave – a month before he was expected to give birth, the suit claims.
‘Amazon has a policy and practice of discriminating against individuals because of their disability and/or pregnancy, failing to provide employees with accommodations, and retaliating against employees for requesting an accommodation which is demonstrated by the dozens of lawsuits filed against Amazon in the past six years in the state of New Jersey alone,’ the suit reads.
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