The Biden administration unconstitutionally attempted to rewrite federal law to effectively force companies employing more than 14 people to allow men who claim to be transgender in women’s restrooms and to use employees’ preferred pronouns, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of President Donald Trump, threw out a 2024 “guidance” document published by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC document warned that employers who “misgendered” employees or restricted bathrooms to men and women could face EEOC investigations for violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but the document stated that it did not purport to have “the force and effect of law.”
Title VII protects employees from discrimination at state and federal governments and at companies employing 15 or more people.
Kacsmaryk ruled…
