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DATELINE 31/01/25 PRIVATE BUSINESS BATHROOM BANS
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas announced a set of policy changes inspired by President Donald Trump’s recent anti-trans executive orders, including the derecognition of nonbinary people, the removal of pronoun options from digital workplace tools, and the elimination of materials promoting what she called “gender ideology.” Most alarming, however, was Lucas’ stated top priority: “defend the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women’s rights to single-sex spaces at work,” a signal that she intends to push for a federally backed bathroom ban in private workplaces.
She cannot overturn the protections that the previous administration afforded trans people under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964) as these were enshrined in law during a SCOTUS ruling which stated that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity was unlawful in the workplace. However that has not deterred the advocates of such a ban after all they won against a 50 year legal precedent when Roe v Wade was overturned. And they may have a case as the SCOTUS ruling explicitly excluded bathrooms and locker rooms.
So, in common with the Trump Federal ban this would mean that trans people, particularly trans women, will be excluded from being able to relieve themselves in any public or work related single-sex designated bathroom or get changed in a similar changing room.