Posted on 04/30/2024 6:40:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
EEOC's landmark new regulatory guidance elevates gender identity as a protected class under discrimination laws like race, sex and religion.
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In landmark guidance, the federal commission created to fight racial and sexual discrimination declared Monday that employers that fail to use a worker's preferred pronoun or refuse them the chance to use the restroom of their choice will be engaging in prohibited harassment.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published the new harassment guidelines Monday after voting along partisan lines on Friday to approve them, even in the face of opposition from nearly two dozen red states. Three Democratic appointees approved the rules while two Republicans opposed them.
The new document elevates gender identity as a protected class under discrimination laws like race, sex and religion.
Prohibited harassment includes "repeated and intentional use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s known gender identity (misgendering) or the denial of access to a bathroom or other sex-segregated facility consistent with the individual’s gender identity,” the new regulatory document declared.
You can read the document here.
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2024-04/Enforcement%20Guidance%20on%20Harassment%20in%20t...qual%20Employment%20Opportunity%20Commission.pdf
Job Creators Network, one of the nation's leading small business groups, decried the new guidance.
"The Biden administration's new guidance on transgender employees is yet another example of executive overreach by unaccountable bureaucrats," Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz said. "The guidance is a solution in search of a problem, as the overwhelming majority of employers already provide their employees with a respectful working environment, no matter what their backgrounds.
"While the Biden administration is focused on using the correct pronouns, small businesses are suffering under the weight of resurgent inflation, high energy costs, and a credit crunch due to Democrats' bad policies. Rules about how to treat transgender employees amount to another headache for employers at the worst possible time," he added.
The guidance offered a hypothetical example of the sort of conduct that will be prohibited in workplaces going forward.
"Chloe, a purchase order coordinator at a retail store warehouse, is approached by her supervisor, Alton, who asks whether she was 'born a man' because he had heard a rumor that 'there was a transvestite in the department.' Chloe disclosed to Alton that she is transgender and asked him to keep this information confidential," the regulatory document states. "After this conversation, Alton instructed Chloe to wear pants to work because a dress would be 'inappropriate,' despite other purchase order coordinators being permitted to wear dresses and skirts.
"Alton also asks inappropriate questions about Chloe’s anatomy and sexual relationships. Further, whenever Alton is frustrated with Chloe, he misgenders her by using, with emphasis, “he/him” pronouns, sometimes in front of Chloe’s coworkers. Based on these facts, Alton’s harassing conduct toward Chloe is based on her gender identity," the document states.
EEOC Chairwoman Charlotte A. Burrows argued the changes were necessitated by the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton decision in 2020 that found that a company would be in violation of Title VII anti-discrimination laws if it fired a worker “simply for being … transgender.”
But 20 Republican state attorneys general told the EEOC last November that the agency's efforts to impose restrictions on pronouns and bathrooms were not authorized by the ruling or by any action of Congress. “Bostock gives no license to these and other of EEOC’s novel proposals," the attorneys generals wrote.
You can read that letter here.
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2024-04/AGsBostockLetter.pdf
“Guidelines”? I don’t remember “guidelines” being law. This has gotten way out of hand, the gov has no business in what someone is called, or to try and enforce the legitimacy of men using women’s restrooms. It’s like they are trying to facilitate sexual harassment. Same with women’s sports. Let women be women!
I was raised in The South.
I held no such notions..................
BINGO. Compelling speech may be more egregious than limiting it.
Not yet...................
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I'm so old I remember when the Dims assured us that allowing two gay adults to call themselves "married" wouldn't lead to forcing the rest of us to call them that. Nor, they said, would it lead to the other slippery slope problems that Christians warned about.
Now we're there.
Them thar people shouldn’t be hired in the first place.
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Years ago I worked for a small company of about 15 employees. The owner was an expert at weeding out liberal applicants by asking certain seemingly innocent questions, their appearance, etc. We had a very low turnover rate so those interviews took place very infrequently.
We were all conservatives.
“Forcing someone to use preferred pronouns is a violation of the first amendment.”
Ah, but.. even though all are equal, some are more equal than others, you see. And the preferred idiots that demand preferred pronouns are more equal to this current government than you are.
It’s not so surprising the federal government is issuing “harassment guidelines.”
Nobody can harass people like the federal government, so they must know how to do it right.
“I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation”
It is also a violation of free exercise of religion.
Marxist social-engineering
My solution to deviant whackos is to refuse to do business with them. I refuse to acknowledge their existence.
At this point it is very clear that the government is now harassing the public, and punishing the public if they do not succumb to the harassment willingly. They are stating that people do not have a right to believe what they want.
Deep State making up s#it.
The left attempt to get around it by claiming that folks who don’t use a person’s fictitious made up nonsense pronoun, are committing “hate crimes”
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