42 U.S.C. § 12208
Section 12208 · Transvestites
This is § 509 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Den Hartog v. Wasatch Academy (1997)
Most recently applied in Maioriello v. New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (September 2017)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
For the purposes of this chapter, the term "disabled" or "disability" shall not apply to an individual solely because that individual is a transvestite.
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References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 101–336, July 26, 1990, 104 Stat. 327, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 12101 of this title and Tables.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 509 of Pub. L. 101–336 was renumbered section 510 and is classified to section 12209 of this title.