Andrea Lucas has been named acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by President Donald Trump shortly after his inauguration, putting a Republican who has questioned corporate DEI’s legality and opposed certain workplace gender identity protections at the helm of the agency.
Lucas’s priorities will include “rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination” and “defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights,” she said in a Tuesday statement.
“Our employment civil rights laws are a matter of individual rights. We must reject the twin lies of identity politics: that justice is measured by group outcomes ...