Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy Files Lawsuit on Behalf of First Transgender Lutheran Bishop Against the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Sierra Pacific Synod for Alleged Harassment, Defamation, and Whistleblowing

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer, the first openly transgender Bishop of the country’s largest Lutheran denomination, today in the United States District Court – Northern District of California, alleging he was demeaned, harassed, defamed, and eventually pushed out of his role as Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod, a division of the Evangelical Church in America covering the geographical area of Northern Ca