"The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has reversed a key portion of its 2015 landmark transgender rights ruling, narrowing protections for transgender federal employees and intensifying a growing clash between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats over the future of workplace equality."
"That executive order declared it the policy of the United States to recognize only binary sexes, male and female, and directed federal agencies to remove all references to 'gender ideology' from policies and guidance. It called for the revision of forms, communications, and internal documents to reflect a person's sex assigned at birth, and for protections in 'intimate spaces' to be enforced on that basis."
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reversed a key portion of its 2015 landmark transgender rights ruling in a 2-1 decision issued February 26. The EEOC ruled against a transgender federal employee who was denied access to the women's restroom at work. This decision narrows protections for transgender federal employees and reflects the Trump administration's Executive Order 14168, issued at inauguration, which declares U.S. policy recognizes only binary sexes and directs federal agencies to remove references to gender ideology from policies. The order requires federal agencies to enforce protections in intimate spaces based on sex assigned at birth, overturning previous precedent that held such denials constituted unlawful sex discrimination.
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