Stealing from another person here:

• [Government] Only 1 out of 50 states guarantees equal rights to short people in terms of employment and government contracts (Michigan).

• [University System] Up until the 1960s Ivy League Schools had policies excluding short men from admission (Gladwell talks about this at Harvard and Yale when they started an in person interview process to weed out short men - you even had to list your height on the old applications).

• [corporate/industry] Most U.S. sperm banks will not accept donations from men who are shorter than 5'8" because they know the sperm will not be marketable - regardless of the donor's other qualifications.

• [Government] As of 2000, the United States Government (through the FDA) has designated healthy male children who are projected to have an adult height shorter than 5'3" to be diseased and a candidate for treatment, even if they are producing healthy and normal growth hormone. The reason for this is that the government determine that the child's adult quality of life will be so low that it should be a disease unto itself.

• [Government - public schools] Short boys are bullied in public schools with very little legal recourse to protect them. At least three short boys (documented) have killed themselves this year because they were bullied because of their height.

• [corporate/industry] The wage gap in the job market based on height is comparable (or greater) than the gender wage gap (depending on how it's calculated).

• [corporate/industry] Shorter candidates are less likely to be hired and less likely to be promoted than taller candidates.

• [Government - Civics] Short people are less likely to win elections and height related issues are not addressed through the political process.