Legal groups sued the US Commission for Equal Employment Opportunity on Tuesday and claimed that it illegally refused to assert the federal government’s protection in the workplace for transgender workers.
Under the leadership of the incumbent chairman Andrea Lucas, a Republican, the Federal Authority, which was commissioned to enforce laws against discrimination at the workplace, is quickly to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive regulation, which declares two unchangeable genders. Under Lucas’ leadership, the EEOC dropped several lawsuits on behalf of the Transgender workers, in some recent cases determined the progress and subjected others to an increased examination. The lawsuit also claims that the agency has hired the payments to state and local civil rights authorities to investigate discrimination claims of gender identity.
“For over 60 years, the EEOC mandate has been to protect workers from discrimination and not to choose who is classified as protective due to political interference,” said Skye Perryman, President and CEO of the Democracy Forward, who, in addition to the National Women’s Law Center brought.
“The illegal efforts of the Trump Vance administration to delete protection for transgender people is cruel and a violation of the law and the constitution,” continued Perryman in an email enriched by email.
The EEOC refused to comment on the lawsuit and instead referred the Associated Press to the Ministry of Justice. The Doj did not immediately answer a request for comments.
Lucas, who was submitted to the US district court in Maryland in Baltimore, said that one of her priorities as the reigning chairman would “defend the biological and binary reality of gender and relatives rights”.
Last month, she defended her decision during her hearing to confirm the Senate Committee on June 18 on behalf of the Transgender workers on behalf of the Transgender workers. Your agency is not independent and must comply with the president’s orders.
“It was impossible to comply with both the president’s executive regulation as an executive industry as well as the workers we had brought the case in our name to defend it eagerly,” she said.
However, Lucas admitted that a judgment of the Supreme Court of 2020 – Bostock against Clayton County – clearly contained discrimination against someone based on the sex to dismiss a person who is more transgender or based on their sexual orientation. “
The plaintiffs argue that the agency, although the precedent of the Bostock precedent, “cemented protection for LGBTQ+ workers that the EEOC had recognized for years”, “transgender worker from the complete accusations of accumulation have excluded, and other enforcement measures that were available to the excitement parties, and themselves categorically refused.
In the lawsuit, in which two Associated Press reports are listed in which EEOC measures are described in connection with LGBTQ+ historic workers, it is claimed that the “Trans -exclusion directive” of the EEOC precedence, title VII of the Civil Rights Act from 1964, violates the same protection guarantee of the fifth change and the administrative procedure.
“Instead of serving his critical role to prevent discrimination in the workplace, the EEOC under Andrea Lucas’ leadership actually promotes discrimination,” said Gaylynn Burroughs, Vice President of Education and Justice at the workplace at NWLC, in one by e -mail about the lawsuit. “Transgender workers deserve to be protected from harassment, and the EEOC is obliged to do this by law. However, the Trump government seems to harass and ensure that they have joined the administration from all forms of public life, including their jobs that have come to court.”
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