Sexual harassment is an adverse and negative treatment of an employee based on that employees
sex. Um that is how that employee presents at the basic level. There are derivative um sex discrimination claims
that an employee may bring based upon how that employee presents um based upon their sex or um identifies based on
their gender. There are many manifestations of an employees sex and when an employee is treated differently
um specifically worse because of that um that is unlawful. Speaking of sex discrimination and the related claims of
sex harassment, occasionally an employee may be given a benefit um that they can only acquire um in the context of sexual
harassment if they acquies to certain demands by an employer. Um, in those cases, that is also unlawful because employment privileges should not ever be
conditioned upon an employes’s consent to certain sex acts um or coerced consent, if you will. In the same vein,
in a hostile work environment, sex harassment case, um an employee may not be subject to a different work environment, one that is hostile,
abusive, unwelcome, or offensive because of that employees sex or manif manifestations thereof.