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

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published new guidance detailing an employer could be found guilty of harassment over bathrooms and pronouns.

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 Sex-based harassment would also include "the denial of access to a bathroom or other sex-segregated facility consistent with the individual’s gender identity," the document goes on to say.

"As we commemorate this year’s 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the guidance will help raise awareness about the serious problem of harassment in employment and the law’s protections for those who experience it," said Burrows in the press release. 

EEOC commissioner Andrea R. Lucas. 

"Relatedly, the Commission declares that harassing conduct includes ‘repeated and intentional use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with [an] individual’s known gender identity.’ The Commission’s guidance effectively eliminates single-sex workplace facilities and impinges on women’s (and indeed, all employees’) rights to freedom of speech and belief. In issuing this guidance, the EEOC ignores biological reality; dismisses the sex-based privacy and safety needs of women; disregards decades of safeguarding principles for women and girls; and fundamentally betrays its mission," she continued. 

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

A woman holding a sign with gender pronouns and symbols near a white brick wall. (iStock)

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