The Seventh Circuit acknowledged that EEOC rulings indicate that sexual orientation discrimination is form of actionable sex discrimination claim under Title VII and acknowledged the difficulty in discerning difference between actionable gender norm discrimination from non-actionable sexual orientation discrimination under Title VII. However, the Seventh Circuit reaffirmed its prior case law in finding that plaintiff's sexual orientation discrimination claim is beyond scope of Title VII, since Title VII's prohibition on discrimination based on "sex" extends only to discrimination based on person's "gender" and not on person's "sexual orientation."