


Tracy Cox has been a professional opera singer for over a decade, and she’s performed with some prestigious companies like the Metropolitan Opera in New York.īut early in her career, mentors and colleagues convinced her that she needed to be smaller to succeed. But everywhere else in the country, people who experience body-size discrimination aren’t protected. cities including San Francisco Madison, Wisconsin and Urbana, Illinois, along with the states of Michigan and Washington, in adding body size to the list of protected characteristics. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed into law a measure banning discrimination based on height and weight in employment, housing and public accommodations.
