Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutionally protected right to marry and, as a corollary, LGBT individuals are protected by the due process clause and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. That same month, Caitlyn Jenner appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine and announced to the world that she was transitioning her gender. Those two events in the span of a week changed the conversation across the country and, at the same time, placed employers in the crosshairs of two groups asserting their newly-protected rights: LGBT workers and workers who oppose LGBT rights based on their religious beliefs. The two groups may seem distinct or even opposed, but they actually are intertwined: extending new rights to LGBT employees may lead to religious freedom objections, and vice versa. This session will review the current legal protections surrounding sexual-orientation- and transgender-based discrimination, the religious exemptions to such protections and what employers need to know to accommodate these protected and competing rights.