"LeAnne Withrow always wanted to be in the military, like her father and grandfather, and she fulfilled that ambition by serving as a soldier in the Illinois National Guard from 2010 to 2023, receiving many honors for her work. Now she's a civilian employee of the Guard, still being recognized for outstanding service, but a Trump administration policy is making her life difficult by restricting where she can perform basic bodily functions."
"Withrow is transgender, having come out about a decade ago, and until recently, she could use the women's restrooms at Camp Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, where she is stationed, and the 12 other Guard facilities she visits as part of her job as lead military and family readiness specialist. That all changed when Donald Trump issued his executive order titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,""
"Withrow filed a class action lawsuit in November against the Trump administration in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, contending that the exclusionary restroom policy violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination in the workplace. In its 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, the U.S. Supreme Court found that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation."
LeAnne Withrow served in the Illinois National Guard from 2010 to 2023 and now works as a civilian military and family readiness specialist. She is transgender and until recently used women's restrooms at Camp Lincoln and twelve other Guard facilities she visits for work. A Trump executive order directs federal agencies to exclude trans and intersex people from single-sex spaces aligning with their gender identity. Withrow filed a November class action in U.S. District Court contending the policy violates Title VII; the 2020 Supreme Court ruled in Bostock that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
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