For Immediate Release: October 12, 2022
Contact: Ryan Hite, Communications Director
Is Another Court Showdown On LGBTQ Discrimination Coming?
Washington, D.C.: “A federal judge in Texas has blocked a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance that mandates workplaces must abide by individuals’ pronoun and bathroom preferences, regardless of sex,” said Ed Martin, president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles. “This Biden Administration rule, handed down in 2021, leaned heavily on the infamous Bostock v. Clayton County Supreme Court ruling that sexual orientation is included in the Civil Rights Act’s prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex.
“No, Judge Kacsmaryk says, not ‘all correlated conduct’ including bathroom and pronoun use is protected by the magical Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The judge gave a very specific and thoughtful ruling, striking down the EEOC rule that employers must bend the knee to bathroom and pronoun fascists.
“This is a great first step, and another win for Republican Attorneys General across the nation who are standing up against an unconstitutional federal agenda! No doubt, Biden’s political persecution department at the DOJ will jump in to defend their authoritarian ways, but our relentless pursuit of protecting our Constitution and saving America will not let up!”
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