New federal transgender rules place women's workplace rights 'under attack,' EEOC commissioner charges

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published caller guidance that details however an leader could beryllium recovered liable for harassment if they necessitate an worker to usage a bath that corresponds with their biologic sex, sparking backlash. 

"Women’s sex-based rights successful the workplace are nether attack—and from the EEOC, the precise national bureau charged with protecting women from intersexual harassment and sex-based favoritism astatine work. In its caller harassment guidance, the Commission formally takes the presumption that for some backstage companies and national employers, harassing behaviour nether Title VII includes ‘denial of entree to a bath oregon different sex-segregated installation accordant with [an] individual’s sex identity,’" EEOC Commissioner Andrea Lucas said successful remark provided to Fox News Digital. 

The caller guidance published Monday, "Enforcement Guidance connected Harassment successful the Workplace," outlines that "sex-based harassment" includes "intentional and repeated usage of a sanction oregon pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s sex identity."

"Harassment, some in-person and online, remains a superior contented successful America’s workplaces. The EEOC’s updated guidance connected harassment is simply a broad assets that brings unneurotic champion practices for preventing and remedying harassment and clarifies caller developments successful the law," said EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows successful a property merchandise Monday. "The guidance incorporates nationalist input from stakeholders crossed the country, is aligned with our Strategic Enforcement Plan, and volition assistance guarantee that individuals recognize their workplace rights and responsibilities."

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 Sex-based harassment would besides see "the denial of entree to a bath oregon different sex-segregated installation accordant with the individual’s sex identity," the document goes connected to say.

"As we commemorate this year’s 60th day of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the guidance volition assistance rise consciousness astir the superior occupation of harassment successful employment and the law’s protections for those who acquisition it," said Burrows successful the property release. 

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The EEOC had announced past twelvemonth that it would update its guidance to see intersexual predisposition and sex identity, which sparked backlash from authorities attorneys general. 

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A caller connection by the governing committee of  Florida's assemblage systems would unit assemblage module to comply with authorities instrumentality mandating them to usage schoolhouse bathrooms according to their biologic sex. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Lucas, who was appointed to the EEOC by President Trump successful 2020, continued successful her connection that "the EEOC ignores biologic reality."

"Relatedly, the Commission declares that harassing behaviour includes ‘repeated and intentional usage of a sanction oregon pronoun inconsistent with [an] individual’s known sex identity.’ The Commission’s guidance efficaciously eliminates single-sex workplace facilities and impinges connected women’s (and indeed, each employees’) rights to state of code and belief. In issuing this guidance, the EEOC ignores biologic reality; dismisses the sex-based privateness and information needs of women; disregards decades of safeguarding principles for women and girls; and fundamentally betrays its mission," she continued. 

"Biological enactment is real, and it matters. Sex is binary (male and female) and is immutable."

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Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House Monday for comment connected the matter. 

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