America is still the land of opportunity, even now that it's ruled by liberals. Here's how you can make a quick half $million at taxpayer expense:

A federal judge has awarded a former Army Special Forces commander nearly $500,000 because she [sic] was rejected from a job at the Library of Congress while transitioning from a man to a woman.

Diane Schroer of Alexandria, Va., applied for the terrorism analyst job while she [sic] was still a man named David Schroer. He was offered the job, but the offer was pulled after he told a library official that he was having surgery to change his gender.

U.S. District Judge James Robinson ruled Tuesday that Schroer was entitled to $491,190 in back pay and damages because of sex discrimination.

Naturally, the ACLU was on hand to assist in the looting.

If you try this scam yourself, I don't advise actually going through with the chemical/surgical transformation into a xenosexual freakazoid. You'd be much better off working for the money, like people did in the olden days.

On a tip from mega. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.