{"id":724,"date":"2024-05-15T00:23:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T00:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/conservative-states-suit-accuses-eeoc-of-defining-gender-identity-discrimination-way-too-broadly\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:05:00","slug":"conservative-states-suit-accuses-eeoc-of-defining-gender-identity-discrimination-way-too-broadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/conservative-states-suit-accuses-eeoc-of-defining-gender-identity-discrimination-way-too-broadly\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative States&#8217; Suit Accuses EEOC of Defining Gender-Identity Discrimination Way Too Broadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Eighteen Republican-leaning states have sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that the agency is defining gender-identity-based workplace harassment far more broadly than the landmark federal workplace-harassment law provides.<\/p>\n<p>Spurring the complaint was new EEOC guidance on workplace-harassment enforcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/laws\/guidance\/enforcement-guidance-harassment-workplace?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued\u00a0in April<\/a>, stating that employers that refused to use transgender workers\u2019 preferred pronouns or barred them from using bathrooms that match their gender identity would be committing workplace <a href=\"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/sexual-harassment-lawyers.html\">harassment<\/a> under Title VII of the <a href=\"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/tax-lawyers.html\">Civil Rights<\/a> Act of 1964.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen Republican-leaning states have sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that the agency is defining gender-identity-based workplace harassment far more broadly than the landmark federal workplace-harassment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[665,1121,1116,1119,349,1118,1120,1117,339],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-accuses","tag-broadly","tag-conservative","tag-defining","tag-discrimination","tag-eeoc","tag-genderidentity","tag-states","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}