A onetime U.S. Treasury Department employee showed up in a dress for a job interview with his former employer, and made it clear that if hired, he intended to wear women's clothes to the office regularly. The Treasury Department declined to reemploy him. Charging that he had been discriminated against under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the man filed suit in federal court, which eventually ruled that the man was not handicapped under the meaning of the law, but still ruled in his favor because the Treasury Department had thought he was handicapped, and had thus discriminated.

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