Last week, on the third day when Donald Trump returned to the White House, many director of the Employment Opportunity Committee received e -mails, including the seemingly regular subject line, “Review of Materials and Website.” The EEOC staff is a federal organization that enforces other discrimination laws for workers in the Civil Rights Law and other millions of private and public divisions, and expects new guidance on wording policy issues. I knew that. President’s transition. However, this email was different. It threatened the mission of the institution and its labor.
THOMAS COLCLOUGH, who led the EEOC field program office to Andrea Lucas, an appointment of the Republican Party, wrote as follows: Masu. Some updates and adjustments of the current practices. He was associated with Trump’s two new presidential orders. One asks for the end of diversity, fairness, inclusion, and accessibility, and the other quotes “sex biological reality” that claims that there is no need for transformers and non -binary people. I am doing it. It is protected under the Citizenship Law. Bostockv. Since the Supreme Court ruling in Clayton County, the court has decided that it is illegal to dismiss employees to be homosexual or transgender, so EEOC is in the workplace to cover all LGBTQIA+individuals. The discrimination law was interpreted. This is, for example, anybody who believed that it was harassed, low -wage, or given for sexuality or sexual orientation, and then came to one of the 53 EEOC offices. It will be investigated. Being a woman or blind. (In order to appeal in court for discrimination in the federal workplace, the plaintiff must first “emit” the EEOC process.) EEOC is also a way to prevent harassment and discrimination based on sexual orientation. You must train institutions, employers, employees, and the general public. And gender identity. Now it seemed to be gone.
The e -mail has instructed the staff to “delete and delete all references to transgender status and gender migration, delete slide decks and distribution materials.” To limit “synonyms and use of etiquette”. To tell the external presenter that these topics may not be discussed or used in any material. The staff was also told to “restrict discussions on discussions in extremely important EEOC documents.” An executive manual for harassment in the workplace that was updated to include “harassment based on gender identity” in 2024. Lucas, chairman of the acting committee, seemed to intend to be one of the first institutions to make Trump orders. “We think we are looking for EEOC because we have the theme expertise, so we think of EEOC’s former lawyer.
Apart from that, the staff, who worked on diversity and fair initiative, was banned from Deia, which was not clear what it means. Deia ended in 1964 with the basic execution of the Citizenship Law established by EEOC in 1964 to execute it? Some of the current employees who talked to me on the condition of anonymous stated that they were confused about the permissible range to complete their daily duty: investigating suspected discrimination or harassment. Starting, conducting training, and even interviewing the petitioner. In FY2023, EEOC received more than 80,000 discrimination or harassment. One of the current staff told me that there was a permanent feeling that “our mission has been inverted.” “All the signals we have gained are to stop the execution we have done before and actively protect people.”
Two days later, various employees of various employees who were allowed by federal regulations and encouraged under the Biden administration -EEOC Pride, military veterans (about one -third of EEOC staff), government blacks , Peace Corps, an employee with an EEOC disability -Microsoft Team was called to the last meeting. They were all said that all of these groups had to dissolve their activities, including outreaches and employees. They were said to eliminate Outlook e -mails, which allows workers to make their favorite pronouns after their names at the team’s meeting. I asked if someone could still celebrate the Black History Month. The answer was no.
On the weekend, the staff of the agency exchanged telephones and texts with each other and tried to understand the confusion. The strange and transgender people wondered if they would be driven out of their work. “I’m not convinced that people are allowed to say their pronoun,” said his current employees. “I don’t think the word” transformer “can be used safely at work. “Trans spouse or child is worried about losing access to healthcare that affirms gender. (This week, Trump has signed an order for minors to prohibit access such care. He calls him “chemical and surgical mutation”.) The Ministry of State is gender. He quoted Trump’s presidential order on identity and announced that it would no longer issue a passport in non -non -organizations. Binary gender marker “X”
On Monday, Trump signed an order to effectively prohibit Trans people from the army, so the EEOC execution staff should not investigate discrimination based on gender identity, and the existing cases are “freezed”. I had the impression that it was. Late at night, the administration fired two Democratic commissioners, a well -known EEOC adviser, Charlotte Burrows, and Jocelyn Samuels, a problem with LGBTQIA+. It is common for a new president to replace the general counsel, but there is no precedent that committee members were fired on the grounds of the party. (In fact, Trump appointed Samuel to the committee during his first term. When I asked the White House about firing, the authorities stated in e -mail: Deleting two of the commissioners in of the commissioner abolished the number of fixed feet that could satisfy many of the functions. “One of the fires of me and Barows is trying to turn EEOC into something like cabinet institutions,” and with Fiat, this government is trying to eliminate the existence of the trance. I am.
Chairman Lucas, the chairman of the acting committee, announced a press release on Tuesday evening, making the official point of the corklau e -mail last week. In her leadership, she stated that EEOC would give priority to defending sex biological and binary reality. She selects bullying in the workplace and enforces the rights of transformers to access the bathroom and other facilities that are safe, to “expand the past Bostok illegally”. I blamed. However, according to Kate Redburn, the director of the Gender Sexuality Law Center in Colombia Law in Bostok, “the Supreme Court contains the protection of the title VII for work discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. I clearly stated that “EEOC spokesman said that Lucas had a gender or transgender, but” Gender identity. “Gender discrimination” is not based on “).
By the time Lucas posted her statement, the Federal Government’s Human Resources Agency, a human resources agent of the federal government, sent an email of the masses that pressed all federal workers to fully accept the agenda of Trump. I did it. OPM has also issued a guidance to “specify intimate space” to “list all documents only for men or women” by all institutions immediately. Not identity, by biological gender. ” The EEOC staff was worried, but the person I spoke wanted to stay. “I met people who had experienced things that I couldn’t say at work this week,” said another current employee. “If people have enough courage to pass through our doors, and they can do something scary by talking about what they are wrong, we will continue to work. I have to be brave. “
