The Republican-controlled EEOC’s decision excluding transgender federal workers from bathrooms matching their gender identity marks the Trump administration’s latest attempt to limit the bounds of a key US Supreme Court’s ruling on LGBTQ+ workplace discrimination, the agency’s former general counsel said Friday.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Feb. 26 federal-sector appellate decision in Selina S. v. Driscoll held that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act allows government agencies to bar workers, including “trans-identifying employees,” from “opposite-sex facilities.”
The opinion, which defines “sex” as immutable and based on biological sex at birth, isn’t legally binding on private sector ...