When Erin Taylor, 29, began working at a Decatur, Ga., Chick-fil-A in August last year, she thought it would be a turning point: a chance to climb up “the corporate ladder” and, after nearly two pandemic years, a way to gain some financial stability, she said.
Instead, she was met with sexual harassment from co-workers on her very first day at work, Taylor alleges in a discrimination lawsuit filed last month. When she reported the abuse to the franchise restaurant’s owner, the complaint alleges, Taylor was not only outed to her harasser as transgender, but she also was told that, as a trans woman, “it should be an honor … that someone liked her enough to hit on her.”