Trump's Gender Order Sparks Revolt Inside Agency Tasked With Protecting Workers

[Nevilledog]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-gender-order-sparks-revolt-inside-agency-tasked-with-protecting-workers-70964bfa

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Multiple EEOC attorneys and other staff have warned acting Chair Andrea Lucas that they can’t comply with the executive order without breaking federal law, according to current employees and an internal email viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The EEOC enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights of Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination in the workplace. A 2020 Supreme Court decision expanded the definition of sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity. In 2022, the agency added the nonbinary gender option to claim forms.

Some agency employees are openly revolting. “The tactics you are employing and the actions you have taken in lockstep with this new administration are illegal and unconstitutional,” an EEOC administrative judge emailed Lucas on Monday, copying in most EEOC staff.

In a reference to Trump’s billionaire adviser, Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk, the judge wrote to Lucas: “If upon reflection, you feel like now would be a good time to take a vacation and resign from your position, please ‘reply all’ to this email and put ‘I’d Like to Occupy Mars!’ in the subject line.”

The judge, one of a number who work at the EEOC, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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[mackdaddy]

1. How is DEI not what the EEOC has been enforcing for Sixty Years?

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are organizational frameworks which seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination on the basis of identity or disability. Wikipedia

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a federal agency that was established via the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to administer and enforce civil rights laws against workplace discrimination. Wikipedia

I guess I don't understand how 'DEI' became such a right wing boogie man?

Somehow anytime a person in any job that is not a white male somehow was chosen because they were not a white male and not because they were just a better choice on their merits?

And 'Woke' means what? That you always discriminate against white men?

I am an older white guy. Anytime I hear someone use Woke that way, I just think 'why are you so stupid'.