"The cases the EEOC withdrew from included those brought on behalf of an Alabama hospitality group worker who alleged their manager said they needed to be "hidden" on the night shift before firing them outright; a transgender woman at an Illinois hog farm who said her coworker exposed his genitals to her and touched her breasts; and a transgender hotel worker in New York who said their supervisor referred to them as "transformer" and "it.""
""The EEOC was bringing the cases on their behalf, and then the EEOC said: 'We're done.' So the only way those folks could get legal relief was if there were other lawyers who would step up and take their cases," said Feldblum, a lawyer and longtime activist for disability and LGBTQ+ rights who served as one of the EEOC's five commissioners during the Obama administration and into the beginning of Trump's first term."
For sixty years the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigated and brought workplace civil-rights cases on behalf of aggrieved workers at no cost, often with success rates above 90%. Early in President Trump's second term the EEOC withdrew from seven gender-identity discrimination cases, leaving transgender and gender-nonconforming workers without federal advocacy. Reported incidents included being told to be "hidden" before termination, sexual exposure and touching, and dehumanizing name-calling. Commissioner Chai Feldblum tracked the withdrawals and warned that executive actions targeting DEI and gender ideology increased risks to the civil-rights protections of these workers.
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