Paxton sues Biden administration over transgender worker protections

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Source: The Hill

08/16/24 11:33 AM ET


Texas’s Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration again over federal workplace protections for transgender employees. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Justice Department (DOJ), argues that agency guidelines clarifying what constitutes harassment under federal law are unlawful and asks the court to permanently block them.

The EEOC guidelines, which are not legally binding, state that denying employees accommodations based on their gender identity — including intentionally misgendering transgender workers or denying them access to restrooms that match their gender identity — is unlawful workplace harassment.

“The opposite is true,” Paxton, along with the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, wrote in Thursday’s lawsuit. “The Biden-Harris Administration is attempting yet again to rewrite federal law through undemocratic and illegal agency action. This time, they are unlawfully weaponizing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in an attempt to force private businesses and States to implement ‘transgender’ mandates—and Texas is suing to stop them,” Paxton said in a statement.

Thursday’s complaint was filed in the Northern District of Texas’s Amarillo Division, where U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Trump, hears nearly all cases. Kacsmaryk last month rejected Paxton’s request to block an earlier version of the EEOC guidance, ruling that a new complaint needed to be filed.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4831247-paxton-sues-biden-administration-transgender-worker-protections/

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1. Well, of course he does. Texas taxpayers pay for Paxton wanting to look in people's underwear. He's Weird and creepy

[tonekat]

2. Paxton needs to be punched in the throat

As do all members of the "Heritage" foundation.

[captain queeg]

3. Maybe the dumbass ought to wait till hurricane season is over.

But of course Joe isn’t Trump and won’t try to blackmail US citizens just because his thin skin gets rubbed the wrong way.

[Bev54]

4. Well he got his judge now, didn't he. That judge needs to go, if it weren't for him

many of these stupid lawsuits would not go forward at all.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

5. Good news

Paxton wasting even more of dumbass Texan's money.

[elleng]

6. Kacsmaryk

[twodogsbarking]

7. Thou shalt not discriminate because of, well, anything.

So fuck you.

[4catsmom]

8. Paxton is as big a criminal as Trump

so no wonder he's also in cahoots with the "Heritage" Foundation

[Clouds Passing]

9. Says Mr. "I didn't count over 2 million mail in democratic ballots, ensuring Biden "lost" texas"

Disgusting human being without a shred of higher intelligence.

[PatrickforB]

10. Please permit me a short rant. I'm a working schmuck - an erstwhile member of America's once-

mighty middle class. I've been nickel and dimed nearly to death. For example, I should be doing better financially than I ever have before, but I have over $10K in HEALTH CARE DEBT. Just went to the store and got five bags of groceries and the cost was $245. That's down, but we're still getting gouged.

In the meantime, the company that manages my PITI on my mortgage payments neglected to project a higher property tax bite due to Colorado overturning it's Gallagher Amendment (too wonky, but the bottom line is residential property owners will owe more in property taxes). But these idiots didn't project that and the result of that was an escrow shortfall, which drove my monthly mortgage payment UP by nearly $200 per month. I told the agent that the escrow people at his company clearly had a rectal-cranial insertion problem, but I still have to suck it up and pay $200 more a month for the effing mortgage.

OK..................that's enough rant, I guess, but what mystifies me is why this asshole thinks I even care which restroom a transgender person uses.

I'll tell you, I would never, NEVER, EVER move to Texas. Never ever. All those stories about women bleeding out in bathrooms because of idiotic ideologue asholes like Paxton, who SHOULD by all rights be in prison.

Seriously, what a hateful, hate-filled lawsuit. They care more about this shit that the economy, that's for sure.