The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted 2-1 to allow federal agencies to restrict transgender employees to bathrooms corresponding with their sex assigned at birth, overturning nearly a decade of workplace protections.
LeAnne Withdrow, a civilian employee of the Illinois National Guard, has filed a class-action lawsuit challenging a Trump-Vance administration policy that blocks intersex and transgender federal employees from using bathrooms aligned with their affirmed gender, arguing that it violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” that effectively nullifies disparate impact liability, a core method by which the federal government enforces the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and redefines civil rights in American law to focus solely on intentional discrimination.