"The lawsuit, filed recently in a U.S. District Court in Maryland, says Trump's order "declares that it is the policy of the United States government to deny Ms. O'Neill's very existence," the Associated Press reports. As a result of new policies based on Trump's order, O'Neill says the NSA no longer recognizes her trans identity and "right to a workplace free of unlawful harassment," while "prohibiting her from identifying her pronouns as female in written communications" and "barring her from using the women's restroom at work.""
"The 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County states that Section VII prohibits discrimination based on sex applied to gender identity. "We agree that homosexuality and transgender status are distinct concepts from sex," the court's majority opinion stated. "But, as we've seen, discrimination based on homosexuality or transgender status necessarily entails discrimination based on sex; the first cannot happen without the second.""
Sarah O'Neill, a data scientist at the National Security Agency, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Maryland challenging a Day One executive order that asserts only two immutable sexes, male and female. O'Neill alleges that NSA policies implementing the order no longer recognize her transgender identity, prohibit listing female pronouns in written communications, bar her from using the women's restroom, and deny her a workplace free of unlawful harassment. The lawsuit contends those policies create a hostile work environment and violate Section VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 2020 Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County held that Section VII bars sex discrimination as applied to gender identity.
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