Since there is nothing in our law that denotes the definition of gender, judges have relied on stereotypical assumptions to make their decisions. It was not until 2004 that the judicial system addressed this problem. In the case of Smith v. In Salem City, a trans woman firefighter was the target of oppressive pandering to convince her to quit or be fired after she privately revealed to her boss that she planned to have sex reassignment surgeries. Smith filed a sex discrimination suit, which was dismissed at his first court appearance, but won his appeal. The interesting part of the first ruling was that it explained how transgender discrimination worked and did not fall under the current verbiage of Title VII, which is why the case was decided against Smith. Although the appeal overturned the decision, withdrawing the opinion, the original dictated a possible definition