Texas Asks Court to Block Federal Workplace Guidance on ‘Gender Identity’

Texas Asks Court to Block Federal Workplace Guidance on ‘Gender Identity’
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 23, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Aaron Gifford
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration over new federal guidance requiring pronoun usage in the workplace based on “gender identity” and accommodations for bathroom use and dress code compliance.

According to a complaint filed on May 21 in the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas in Amarillo, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has unlawfully redefined “sex” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to recognize gender identity instead of biological sex, even though a 2022 federal court ruling in favor of Texas already stated that the EEOC doesn’t have the authority to mandate reinterpretations of the 60-year-old law.

Aaron Gifford
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Aaron Gifford has written for several daily newspapers, magazines, and specialty publications and also served as a federal background investigator and Medicare fraud analyst. He graduated from the University at Buffalo and is based in Upstate New York.
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