That President Obama hasn’t signed an executive order banning discrimination gender identity and expression for federal contractors and federal employees.
Labor Department Refuses To Answer Questions On Transgender Protections
“I don’t have anything on that, I’m afraid, but I’ll let you know if anything changes,” a department spokeswoman says. Action is “imperative,” one advocate says, while another says the Labor Department’s continued inaction is “lawless.”
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Chris Geidner BuzzFeed Staff
August 20, 2013 at 9:23pm EDT
WASHINGTON — Labor Department officials have refused for more than a year to answer questions from BuzzFeed about whether transgender workers for federal contractors are legally protected from discrimination. And, nearly a month into Labor Secretary Tom Perez’s tenure, answers are no more forthcoming.
The questions surround Executive Order 11246, which was signed by President Lyndon Johnson and bans federal contractors doing more than $10,000 a year of business with the federal government from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin. The executive order is enforced by the Labor Department, and, under the department’s policies, an April 2012 ruling by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission should have led the department to expand its definition of sex in the executive order to include anti-transgender discrimination.
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